{"id":1084,"date":"2025-11-27T12:31:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T15:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juanvaleros.com\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2025-12-03T17:28:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:28:01","slug":"jardin-botanico-de-oxford-invernaderos-y-areas-de-visitantes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juanvaleros.com\/en\/jardin-botanico-de-oxford-invernaderos-y-areas-de-visitantes\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasshouses and Visitor Facilities - Oxford Botanic Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The proposal for the Oxford Botanic Garden introduces a new family of glasshouses and visitor facilities that expand and modernise the infrastructure of the oldest botanic garden in the UK. The masterplan organises these new buildings within a highly sensitive historic and landscape setting, preserving key views towards Oxford\u2019s landmark towers and maintaining the open character of the riverside gardens along the Cherwell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Juan Valeros contributed to the competition as part of the WilkinsonEyre team, focusing primarily on developing the geometry of the two principal glasshouses. The Tropical Glasshouse is conceived as a sequence of laminated timber or engineered bamboo parabolic arches, set at 3.5\u2011metre intervals, rising to a height of 15 metres. Its form, inspired by the historic glasshouses of Paxton and Burton, allows for an ascending internal walkway that weaves through dense planting and leads to an elevated terrace. The Arid Glasshouse, approximately 8 metres high, is formed by a series of<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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identical parabolic arches inclined at 15 degrees and connected by catenary steel cables. This repetitive, tensioned geometry creates a gently undulating envelope that softens the building\u2019s profile against the landscape while providing optimal light and ventilation for dry\u2011climate species. Both glasshouses were developed through parametric modelling, enabling extensive exploration of formal and structural variations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ensemble is completed by new education, caf\u00e9 and exhibition spaces, the refurbishment of existing structures, and a landscape project that introduces a new garden area shaped by organic geometries inspired by the Fibonacci sequence, in dialogue with other exterior and interior interventions. Sustainability is central to the proposal, including timber or bamboo primary structures, ground\u2011source heat pumps and a circular, energy\u2011efficient environmental strategy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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El proyecto para el Oxford Botanic Garden propone un nuevo conjunto de invernaderos y edificios de acceso que ampl\u00edan y actualizan las instalaciones del jard\u00edn bot\u00e1nico m\u00e1s antiguo del Reino Unido. El plan maestro define una organizaci\u00f3n que integra los nuevos vol\u00famenes en un contexto de alto valor hist\u00f3rico y paisaj\u00edstico, preservando las vistas hacia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"tipologia":[14],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-estudios","tipologia-equipamiento"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juanvaleros.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juanvaleros.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juanvaleros.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juanvaleros.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juanvaleros.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/juanvaleros.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1304,"href":"https:\/\/juanvaleros.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions\/1304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juanvaleros.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juanvaleros.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juanvaleros.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juanvaleros.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"tipologia","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juanvaleros.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tipologia?post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}