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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It really began when an art gallery with branches in New York, Hong Kong and London renovated a 17th-century Somerset farmhouse as a showcase for paintings and sculptures for the in-crowd.
The nearby town of Bruton was already beginning to draw artists, musicians and designers as a weekend retreat when Hauser & Wirth opened the showroom, along with holiday rentals and an artists residence at Durslade Farmhouse, in 2014.