Creswell Crags Visitor Center

A tourist visitor center built into the side of a limestone gorge in the counties of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire in England.

The lead architect wanted to create a minimalistic building at ground level to reduce the visual impact on the views of the gorge. The center had a single storey building above ground with a further 3 levels below built into the slope of the gorge limestone rock.

The project scope for the team was:

• Site plot plan

• 1km access road

• Parking lots

• Soft and hard landscaping

• Surface water attenuation tanks

• Surface water management with swales, kerb drains and underground drainage system

• Attenuation of surface water run off to a 1 in 100 year design event with a controlled discharge to watercourse

• External sanitary drainage system and foul pumping station

• Internal building drainage

• Oil separators

• Outfalls to watercourse

• Sustainable drainage design with porous pavement areas

The consultancy was also responsible for liaising and obtaining approvals from both local and general government bodies for the project specifics.