Dark stained timber cladding is to feature on the new £35m Mary Rose musuem, which has received the green light from planners at Portsmouth City Council.
The steel frame museum, conceived as a finely crafted wooden jewellery box, will reunite the ship’s preserved hull with thousands of unseen artefacts from the ship for the first time in 500 years.
The cladding, using variable plank sizes, will mirror the carvel construction of the Mary Rose’s hull, as well as traditional boatshed architecture. The species has not yet been determined but the project team told TTJ that the choice would depend on appropriateness to the application, longetivity and cost.
The project has been designed by a team comprising Wilkinson Eyre Architects (main architect), Pringle Brandon (interior architect), Land Design Studio and structural engineer Gifford.
The Mary Rose Trust has raised more than half the £14m required to match £21m earmarked for the project by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
