The shunting of the Sark

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A visitor centre for the Cutty Sark will be made possible by raising the sailing ship 1.5m to create space underneath.

The temporary visitor pavilion (see related story below) alongside the Cutty Sark’s dry dock in Greenwich, south London, was conceived by architect youmeshehe as a deconstruction of the famous tea clipper herself. The timber struts, metal rigging and PVC fabric give contemporary architectural expression to the golden age of sail, when wind power and seamanship could outrun the first steam-powered liners.
Likewise, the permanent visitor centre, designed by youmeheshe in association with Grimshaw, is both a visualisation of Cutty Sark’s record-breaking speed, and an homage to the timber engineering that went into her construction.
Shelves of timber flow sinuously around the wall of the Cutty Sark’s concrete dry dock, the flow of their curves generated by computer-modelling of the aerodynamic flow of water around the Cutty Sark’s stern. In plan, these lines generate the position and proportions of a new entrance stairway from ground level to the underbelly, plus the billowing shapes of the reception desk, café servery and toilet facilities.
To allow for this, the ship will be raised within the existing concrete dry dock by 1.5m, allowing the public access to the underside of the hull, and creating around 1,000sq m of usable space for the visitor and interpretation centre. (...)

Fonte: Bdonline