photo by Nathan Willock
Fareshare is a national charity working to relieve food poverty by providing quality food and other food-related support services to organisations working with disadvantaged and vulnerable people throughout the UK.
AfH UK was approached by FareShare in 2007 to design a new training centre in their food warehouse in Bermondsey, South London. The team provided a multidisciplinary services, including architectural design, structural and services engineering. The building opened at the beginning of 2009 and FareShare is delighted with the new facilities:
“The provision of pro bono services has allowed us to create a genuinely brilliant space as opposed to a plain ‘box’ of a building and we offer our sincerest thanks to AfH UK – all the people who gave up their own time – and made this possible”
Mike McNally, FareShare’s National Development Manager
photos by Nathan Willock
The brief was for a four-room training centre that would provide a facility for essential life skills in safe food preparation and nutrition for FareShare clients who face social or personal barriers to education and employability. The design team created an uninstitutional environment within a tight budget. The structural timber frame is designed to be demountable to enable the client to relocate the centre to another warehouse in the future.
The completed project was featured on the website treehugger: link to article, here.
photo by Nathan Willock