Culloden Battlefield Visitor Centre
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Visitor centre for The National Trust for Scotland with cafe, shop and conference facilities
The centre replaced the 1970s facilities at the Culloden Battlefield, the site of the last battle to be fought on mainland Britain, and is designed to recieve 250,000 visitors a year.
The building houses exhibits with interpretation of the battle along with educational/conference facilities, 240 cover café and restaurant, a shop and staff accommodation. The centre is defined by a wave-form roof and a long wall that passes through the building and out into the landscape.
Visitors can take an interpretive journey through the exhibition culminating in a view of the site from the planted roof or enter the battlefield via a portal between a gently sloping berm, and a memorial wall for the fallen.
The heavily insulated building is clad with local larch, Caithness stone and site-salvaged stone, and is heated by a biomass boiler supplied from local forests. The project was opened during Scotland’s Year of Highland Culture in 2007.
Data
- Begun: Aug 2006
- Completed: 2007
- Floor area: 2,400m2
- Sector: Arts and culture
- Total cost: £9.4M
- Procurement: SBCC Scottish Building contract with Contractor's Design 1999 Edition
- CO2 Emissions: 15kg/m2/year
- Address: Culloden Battlefield Visitor Centre, Culloden Moor, Inverness, IV2 5EU, United Kingdom
Professional Team
- Architect: Gareth Hoskins Architects
- Client: National Trust for Scotland
- Structural engineer: David Narro Associates
- Quantity surveyor: Thomas and Adamson
- Interpretive Designer: Ralph Appelbaum Associates
- Main contractor: Morrison Construction
Suppliers
- Green roof: Icopal