NEUBAU was commissioned the design of a new outdoor bar and servery for the Museum of Technology in the grounds of the Engineer’s House of the Old Pumping Station. The new bar is designed to operate mostly as a summer venue to serve the museum visitors and local community in the Victorian walled garden and stepped landscape with views of the river Cam.
The structure borrows its architectural language from the, rare for Cambridge, industrial heritage context of the Old Pumping Station. Its protagonist is a single coffered roof minimally supported on a few steel posts. The roof allows for diffused light to enter the bar from above while the lack of walls unlock views of the Old Pumping Station from the Engineer’s House gardens.