City Approach

This retrofit is a multi-level extension of a historic building through a series of staked maisonettes-like bridging between the Edwardian period building and the ever-evolving contemporary city scape surrounding it. Fittingly at the heart of London’s Tech, the resulting hybrid live-work typologies offer a flowing organisation that is both open and differentiated by possible occupations and times of the day. Between the necessary closed spaces one can find a series of niches and spatial nooks that offer alternatives to gather or isolate, to work or to school. Large communal live-work spaces for each unit are separated with private spaces by dramatic sculptural staircases and secret joinery walls.