Project: Terevete Interactive Educational Forest Centre
Designed by Sampling
Total Area: 5482 m2
Client: Latvijas Valsts Meži
Location: Terevete, Latvia
Website: www.sampling.lv
Terevete Interactive Educational Forest Centre designed for a location in Latvia by Sampling architects, shaped to become a research object itself the building also contains exhibition halls, classrooms and conference facilities. For more images as well as architects description continue after the jump:
From the Architects:
The building that contains exhibition halls, classrooms, conference facilities etc. is created to become a research object itself. It illustrates the use of wood and its recycling products, it lets the visitor experience being in the forest, the change of the seasons. It notifies about the amount of energy saved by different appliances, technical solutions and materials used in the building.
The wooden pedestrian bridge brings visitors over the motorway to the Tervete Nature park.