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Client: private client

Location: Timperley, Trafford, England

Gross floor area: 700sqm

Design: commence from 2016

Design Stage: RIBA Working Stage 0-1, feasibility study

Design team: Jing Wu, José Campon,

The vast majority of this 22 acres’ site has been dominated by sport pitches, while the 150 years old barn and farmhouse are located at the northern edge. Through historical research, we conclude that the barn itself had been altered several times into its existing conditions. this existing building complex had been used in the last decades as social-sports clubs and gym, which have indicated obvious deteriorating conditions. The client’s intention is to transform this into an international junior football training base. Our intention was to retain its original features and rationalize the overall space structure in the light of brief. To achieve this, the architects kept street-side façade (particular the featured gable ventilation fenestrations), reinstalled some original window/door openings and snagged away some non-original built areas. Some inwards-looking window openings were to be widened and enhanced to achieve more positive visual links between the indoors and the immediate landscape and sport pitches further beyond. The interior spaces were completely re-organized to reflect clear and efficient circulation strategy, while some roof spaces would be opened up to introduce daylight into deeper space surrounded by existing solid external wall. Weathered timber board were proposed to be extensively used around the window/door reveals and sides to echo the building’s agricultural past.