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Yorkshire Sculpture Park improvements

LUC

Bretton Hall Park is a late eighteenth / early nineteenth century landscape park developed to complement the setting of Bretton Hall. The Hall was acquired by West Riding County Council in 1948 and developed as a teacher training college. It is now occupied by University College Bretton Hall. The Yorkshire Sculpture Park owns and runs part of the grounds and it is they who commissioned a study of the landscape issues associated with the proposals to build new visitor and gallery facilities. Part of the brief was to study the development of the historic landscape, to understand its extent and importance and to consider management initiatives across the whole designed landscape.

Overview

Location

Location 

West Bretton, Yorkshire

Category

Masterplanning and visitor facility improvements

Landscape Architect

LUC

Client

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Brief

To produce landscape masterplan including historical research to inform sensitivities and capacity of site to take proposed new development.

Awards

West Bretton, Yorkshire

Details

Project Team

• Architects: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios • QS and Project Managers: Burnley Wilson Fish • Engineers: WSP • M&E Engineers: City of Wakefield Metropolitan District Council

Local planning authority or government body

Year Completed

2006

Project Size

240 ha

Technical's

Planting

The access drive is treated with naturalist planting. A green roof on the new underground galleries forms a link between the landscape above and below the building.

Materials

Pedestrian entrance to the visitor centre is surfaced with the Walk of Art, a Corton steel sheet with sponsors names incised into it. The south side of the underground gallery features a terrace and glazed elevation. Throughout the external design the emphasis is on the careful manipulation of levels, an acute awareness of setting and backdrop, and on the use of repeated simple materials (tar spray and chip road surfacing, Breedon gravel, local yorkstone, fine lawn and grazed meadow, oak and willow).

Contractors 

LUC

Approximate Map Location


Location

West Bretton, Yorkshire

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