A wooden frame covered with decorative Japanese Shikkui-style plaster defines The Farmer's Arms Cold Food Store in the Lake District, designed by London studio Hayatsu Architects.

The pavilion contains a cooking area and cold food store for fermented goods made by the Grizedale Arts institution, which runs a pub as part of its headquarters in Lowick Green.

Hayatsu Architects has created The Farmer's Arms Cold Food Store in the Lake District

Hayatsu Architects created the structure with the participants of a week-long building residency, held annually by the arts institution to facilitate the exchange of knowledge about building with local materials.

This year's workshop was hosted in collaboration with Japanese plasterer Kiyoshi Fukuda and local coppice worker Owen Jones, with whom participants got "hands-on experience".

It contains food storage and a kitchen for Grizedale Arts

"Grizedale Arts started operating the Farmer's Arms pub in Lowick Green in 2020 as their headquarters for pursuing their ethos of useful art, which encompasses growing vegetables, cooking food and making pots, furnitures and buildings," explained Hayatsu Architects director Takeshi Hayatsu.

"The pub is very popular for locals and visitors, and the kitchen became too busy to accommodate the needs," he continued.

"They also wanted to start the food fermentation, such as making kimchi and miso, so the cold food store was built primarily for storing vegetables and fermenting."