Studio MULTI

The Filling Station, Thames Valley Park

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Posted on 17.01.2023

A new cafe, events space and facilities for occupants at Thames Valley Park and visitors to the nearby nature reserve.

Approach from the nature reserve [Image: Marvin Chik Studios]

Thames Valley Park, near Reading, comprises a series of large office buildings for tech-based businesses set in a natural landscape.

Studio Multi is developing a series of interventions for managing client Alethia to connect occupants with each other and the natural landscape that surrounds them. The Filling Station is a cafe and flexible events space, with toilets and changing facilities open to both business users and the public visiting the nearby nature reserve. The building is designed to a Passivhaus brief, with a timber structure and charred cedar facade to minimise embodied carbon.

Approach from the main access road [Image: Marvin Chik Studios]
Cafe space [Image: Marvin Chik Studios]
Events space [Image: Marvin Chik Studios]
Engineered timber structure
Building envelope, with Yakisugi timber cladding and solar control blinds
Model
Site location

Client: Aletheia TVP

Structures: Whitby Wood

MEP and Passivhaus: Inside-Outside Engineering

Landscape: to-studio

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