BAT HOUSE COMPETITION - EXHIBITION OF WINNING ENTRIES

London's first purpose-built Bat House will be a building of aesthetic and environmental excellence, made from sustainable materials, that both offers homes to bats and is a building that the public can engage with.

Come and see the winning entries of the design competition to find out more about these fantastic creatures, and how architects, bat enthusiasts and schoolchildren responded to the challenge of designing or a new typology - a structure intended for animal inhabitation and human contemplation.

"I was looking for a design that was distinctive, original and showed ambition - I'm very pleased with the result." Jeremy Deller, Juror, Artist & initiator of the Bat House Project.

"The winning design was poetic and unexpected, combining state-of-the-art technology with a rural and romantic aesthetic."  Amanda Levete, Juror and Director of Future Systems.

The competition was initiated by artist Jeremy Deller (Turner Prize 2004) in partnership with the Arts Council England, the Bat Conservation Trust, the Greater London Authority, plusequals, the RSA and the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust. Project managed by Pascale Scheurer, Director of Surface to Air Architects, and the RIBA Competitions Office.

Project website: www.BatHouseProject.org

See Manchester Evening News article