MEDIEVAL MASSING

摘要

Friday morning finds me huddled underneath an umbrella between Phil North of City of Lincoln Council and Guy Smith of Bauman Lyons Architects. Across the street is The Terrace, Leeds-based Bauman Lyons' latest addition to what North refers to as Lincoln's 'cultural quarter'. It's a set of three linked buildings, containing offices and workspaces for young businesses in the creative sector. Peering through the rain we can see Panter Hudspith's City and County Museum, completed in 2005. It sits to the east of The Terrace, just before the shallow incline of the road steepens toward the medieval cathedral that dominates the city. 'We are dealing with the same problem [as Panter Hudspith] of how to provide a large modern building volume that sits in a medieval city,' says Smith. His solution is a building divided into three separate pitched-roof masses that run parallel to the contours of the sloping site. The forms reflect the many pitched-roof terraces that run east-west around the city's hillside.