Bircham Park MSCP | Studio Woodroffe Papa

More than just a car park this is a hybrid building that combines two types of apparently contradictory operations; an office and retail building with the utility of a car park building
to create a new compact typology. It forms part of an entrance and visitor hub delivering services, amenities, and secure parking for 600 cars to 11,000 daily staff, patients and visitors.

The slope is utilised to ‘hide’ 6 storeys of parking in the valley with a more modest 3 storeys of offices, retail, and food and beverage addressing a new public street. One dominant level extends west to form Outlook Terrace; a sunny public belvedere activated by shops and cafes overlooking Bircham Valley.

Levels are grouped into pairs to address the scale, which shift
in plan to create walkways, terraces and areas of shelter. A series of ‘landscape’ treatments cover the car park; Ivy where the base of the building emerges to the south, a forest-like lattice of powder-coated metal bars and a screen of pine logs.