Outpost triumphs in National Grid gasholders competition

摘要

Fledgling practice Outpost has won a RIBA-run ideas competition to explore potential uses for the base structures left behindrnwhen gasholders are decommissioned.rnThe studio, founded in 2016, beat shortlisted finalists 318 Studio, CF Architects, Jan Verhagen and Priscille Rodriguez, MaxrnArchitects and Wilson Owens Owens Architects – WOO for short – in the competition, organised on behalf of the National Grid.rnOutpost’s proposal was to create timber units providing housing and affordable workspaces in the circular voids left whenrngasholders are dismantled, an idea the practice said was inspired by the circular communal homes of China’s Hakka people.