New Finchley Reform Synagogue, North London Community Building, Passive Architecture Development
Finchley Reform Synagogue in North London
New Community Building Project in South East England ? design by dMFK
26 Mar 2019
Finchley Reform Synagogue
Architects: dMFK
Location: Finchley, North West London, England, UK

de Metz Forbes Knight Architects (dMFK) has won planning permission for Finchley Reform Synagogue – an innovative new synagogue and community building for a progressive Reform Jewish community in North London. Following the ECO Synagogues initiative, the community are aiming for a Passivhaus building, one of the first new religious buildings of it?s kind in the UK.

Fundamentally rethinking the real needs of a religious building today, along with prayer, the building provides an essential flexible framework for the wide range of activities undertaken in the community. The innovative design wraps a traditionally configured prayer hall with an outward facing flexible community-focused public areas and incorporates a kindergarten for 60 children around a sheltered first-floor roof garden. The building will provide education, support and pastoral care for elderly and young people, the disabled and disadvantaged groups, and will reach out to the wider community through its resources and facilities.
The 4m-high prayer hall and public foyer areas will feature ceilings of exposed cross-laminated timber beams in a structurally efficient, decorative three-dimensiona...