Avery Hill Café
A new café building designed in conjunction with Stakeholders including Friends of Avery Hill and Greenwich Council replaces the previous café which was destroyed in a fire. The café is intended to be a community resource, and flexible in its availability for various community uses, including teaching spaces, and a sheltered area to protect dogs in view of their owners. A steel sheltering frame encloses a core of prefabricated steel containers, adjusted to provide windows and doors that suit the specific access and views of the new roadside location. Hydroponic panels clad to the steel frame bring vertical vegetation which helps to deter vandalism and establishes an explicit relationship with the park in terms of imagery, texture and friendliness. The building is intended to bring an intimacy of experience alongside the open generosity of the Avery Hill Spaces. The painting by Karl Friedrich Schinkel indicates this idea.
The café is a strategic project as well as a new Avery Hill resource, designed to combine a mixture of standardised and bespoke building elements to respond to a whole series of green spaces along the South East London Green Chain that could benefit from this accommodation and facility.
