Te Kete Ita - Lincoln University Dining Hall
By Sheppard & Rout Architects
The initial brief called for a new large-scale commercial kitchen and café extension to an existing dining hall. During construction of this project in 2011 and 2012, further earthquake assessment of the existing dining hall was undertaken, which led to a replacement dining hall concept developed. The resulting building has become a hub for the university’s student body activities.
Inherent with Lincoln University’s land-based focus the use of natural materiality was imperative in the design. As a result locally sources timber was used extensively, and, where materials of higher embodied energy are used (such as concrete panels and structural grid), they provide thermal mass for heating the building and minimal maintenance in the long term.
Since completion the building has been named Te Kete Ika, ‘The Food Basket,’ appropriate both in terms of its programme but also in its aesthetic form. The original café’s diagonal truss glulam roof structure has further evolved in the dining hall, using steel diagonal struts as a response to the increase in scale.
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We aim to produce humanist architecture comprised of stimulating and inspirational spaces and places.
We are a design-based practice that believes in providing tailor-made solutions to an individual client's needs. The fundamental objective of the practice is to develop architecture that is appropriate to its specific site, wider context and intended use while being robust, flexible and environmentally-aware.
These variables are used along with the appropriate structural considerations to develop buildings with well-suited form and style, instead of approaching the design from a stylistic standpoint.
The practice was established in 1982 in Christchurch by David Sheppard and Jonty Rout. In its 40 years the practice has carried out a wide range of projects covering many types and in numerous geographic locations. The founding partners brought to the practice extensive design and construction experience gained while working with other offices in both New Zealand and overseas. Tim Dagg joined Sheppard & Rout in 1986 and Jasper van der Lingen in 1993 and they both joined David Sheppard as Directors in 2006.
With David Sheppard now retired and Jonty very sadly passed away the practice is led by Directors Jasper van der Lingen and Tim Dagg and three Associate Directors; Matt Gutsell, Jonathan Kennedy and Steven Orr.
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