Aston Hall Visitor Centre

Status: 2001
Location: Birmingham

Client: Birmingham Museum Art Gallery
Value: £2.3m

 

The proposed Aston Regeneration Centre (ARC) is a flexible exhibition and community education building built in the stable courtyard of Aston Hall, a Grade I listed Jacobean mansion. The project aims to contribute to the regeneration of the area and encourage local use of the Hall and the surrounding park through engagement with the local community.

Through careful use of scale, proportion and materials the ARC will recreate the courtyard to the north of the hall and form part of a broader strategy which intends to re-establish the sequence of enclosed spaces around the main building.

The proposed new building is built over the footprint of a seventeenth century stables building which was demolished in the nineteenth century. The remains of this building have been excavated and will be conserved and displayed as part of the scheme.

The proposed £2.3 million building forms part of a larger phased regeneration and conservation of Aston Hall and Aston Park.

 

Credits
Conservation Architect: Rodney Melville and Partners
Services Engineer: Gifford
Landscape Architect: Landscape Practice Group
Main Contractor: Wates