The resulting scheme comprises a 30m pool, a children’s pool, a changing room building and a cafe, integrated sensitively into the picturesque, landscaped grounds of the Club. The new buildings draw on the rhythm, scale and materials of the originals, adopting the distinctive Club colours, while providing modern standards of accommodation and a facility for the members to enjoy for the next eighty years.

One of the key innovations of the project was the use of prefabricated timber cassettes to form the structure of the roof and give the roof profile its distinctive shape. This involved collaboration with Price and Myers 3D Engineering and fabricators Commercial Systems International and developing an approach that had been established with David Morley Architects’ residential penthouses at Lister Mills. This approach involved the development of an extremely detailed 3D model which enabled the complicated geometry of the roof to be plotted and understood. The 3D model was then used directly to cut the required shapes out of OSB for factory assembly, allowing tight control over the quality and minimising the installation time on site. The result is an extremely efficient integration of structure with roof form and as close a realisation of the original vision that could be achieved.