A COMMUNITY farm shop opened in Somerset at the end of last year - with sustainability in mind. Moxon Architects helped to create the new farm shop for Artfarm, and finished the building in November 2020. Durslade Farm Shop, on the site of Hauser & Wirth Somerset in Bruton, focuses on supporting local food and craft. The new building has been created with sustainability in mind. There is passive ventilation and natural daylight so that energy used is minimal. Low impact materials such as as timber and prefabricated panels were chosen for their lower embodied carbon footprint. Moxon’s managing director Ben Addy said: “It’s been a pleasure to have been involved in this project, our sixth completed scheme for the client, and one where we have been able to showcase our shared enthusiasm of local sourcing and material provenance.
A COMMUNITY farm shop opened in Somerset at the end of last year - with sustainability in mind. Moxon Architects helped to create the new farm shop for Artfarm, and finished the building in November 2020. Durslade Farm Shop, on the site of Hauser & Wirth Somerset in Bruton, focuses on supporting local food and craft. The new building has been created with sustainability in mind. There is passive ventilation and natural daylight so that energy used is minimal. Low impact materials such as as timber and prefabricated panels were chosen for their lower embodied carbon footprint. Moxon’s managing director Ben Addy said: “It’s been a pleasure to have been involved in this project, our sixth completed scheme for the client, and one where we have been able to showcase our shared enthusiasm of local sourcing and material provenance.
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The store was set up by Artfarm, which is the hospitality wing of art gallery Hauser & Wirth. It’s located on Durslade Farm in Bruton, Somerset, which was restored and transformed into a Somerset outpost for the gallery in 2014. Gallery co-founder Iwan Wirth has described it as a place to “bring all our interests together: art, architecture, landscape, conservation, gardening, food, education, community”.
The food and community part of that philosophy is very much on display in Durslade Farm Shop, which sells products made with ingredients grown on the farm and nearby fields. It also stocks contributions from other local Somerset businesses.