Mary Duggan Architects reveals angular workshop for The Hepworth Wakefield Garden

London-based Mary Duggan Architects has unveiled designs for a garden workshop with a sloping, angular roof for The Hepworth Wakefield Garden in West Yorkshire, UK.

The single-storey Garden Workshop and adjacent yard will provide dedicated storage for the tools and equipment needed to maintain the site's existing garden, as well as additional workshop space.

Its structure is planned within the existing Hepworth Garden, designed by landscape architect Tom Stuart-Smith, and will sit alongside The Hepworth Wakefield art gallery completed by London studio David Chipperfield Architects in 2011.

Mary Duggan Architects looked to the site's existing context for the design of the new workshop and gallery store, which will serve as a "base" for the garden's activities.

"The Garden Workshop has been designed in a way that complements the wider site – the architecture of the gallery building designed by David Chipperfield, the Tom Stuart-Smith garden and the red brick Victorian mills opposite that are being restored for the 21st century – whilst allowing visitors to witness the constant upkeep and horticultural tasks necessary to keep the garden thriving," The Hepworth Wakefield organisation said.

Renders of the proposal reveal the workshop will have a low-lying volume wrapped with pink-hued walls and topped by an angular, pitched roof.

Set to be nestled within the existing garden, Mary Duggan Architects designed its exterior structure to double as a home for invertebrates, bats and birds to promote local biodiversity.

Externally, slim columns will support the roof's overhangs to create a partially sheltered yard, which will have a plant nursery as well as allow for rainwater collection and on-site composting.

Inside, the building's new workshop space will be used to host events for local volunteers and young people, while also facilitating a wider initiative by The Hepworth Wakefield to offer new horticultural traineeships.

"The workshop and yard will transform the way we look after our beautiful Tom Stuart-Smith garden, creating a base for all the activity that goes into making sure it is a special space for many years to come," CEO at The Hepworth Wakefield Olivia Colling said.

"The new building is also important in helping us realise our long-held ambition to provide more opportunities for more people to benefit from our garden."

Elsewhere, Foster + Partners has unveiled designs for a series of pavilions for a sculpture garden beside the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and Snohetta has designed the Skamarken riverside development in Norway with a mound-like theatre.

The renders are courtesy of The Hepworth Wakefield unless otherwise stated.

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