Dome Shaped Roof SIPs

This exceptional building is the Plas Glyn y Weddw Art Gallery in North West Wales. We used thermally efficient 172mm SIP pre-cut into hundreds of different shapes for site assembly by our expert SIP construction team.

Dome Shaped Roof Deliverables

  • A SIPs solution to a complex dome design.
  • Clear communication and specialist advice in SIPs Construction.
  • A SIPs design workshop to manufacture complex panels arrangements.
  • Onsite assembly working with architects to achieve their exceptional vision

Dome Shaped Roof project

The existing cafe is located within a modern conservatory which is inappropriate and has poor thermal properties. The form of the new dining area is generated from Matthew’s interest in nature and echoes the shell of a sea urchin. The rain screen facade is to be comprised of 23,000 stainless steel ‘barnacles’ all fabricated and welded by hand into sections which are to be secured over the water-tight fabric below.

What the client said

Mark Wray Architects report “Working in collaboration with the renowned metal sculptor Matthew Sanderson, we are developing a proposal for a new 80-cover cafe facility at the popular Plas Glyn y Weddw Art Gallery in North West Wales.

Internally, Matthew will design and manufacture the principal structural elements of the dining space which rise to a central oculus. To the rear of the dining area is the new kitchen and servery and new toilets are located within the former kitchen to the back of the main house. A circulation route between the new and historic fabric provides level access across the whole ground floor of the Centre and creates a transition between new and old”.

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Project Details
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Location:
North West Wales
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Type:
SIPs
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Status:
Unique Unusual
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Year:
2022
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