Cultivate Newark
Atelier 01: Cabinet of Curiosities
Project
The museum Cultivate Newark focuses on connecting sustainability, education and community into one space through the context of light, time and the growth cycles of plants. The museum highlights how there can be a symbiotic relationship between urban and industrial life and food systems, emphasising the impact architecture can have on creating environmental awareness, social engagement and innovation. The museum builds on Newark-on-Trent’s industrial past, reimagining it as a hub for sustainable and efficient food production and an education space to encourage the use of sustainable farming to visitors, blending the historical identity of the site with future-focused environmental resilience.
Spatial Concept
A major theme behind the museum is the regeneration of an urban area and community impacted by the move to more sustainable forms of power generation, the drive for sustainability itself giving rise to a need for regneration. The design for the urban farm contrasts an industrial, unsustainable past that shaped a community identity and landscape, with a sustainable future and using innovative technologies and education to reshape the community and its identiy. The building design uses the RIBA and UN Sustainable Development Goals in to develop this theme.
