Studio³

This scheme is located within a listed warehouse converted to residential use in the 1980s. The clients’ brief focussed on the inclusion of a dedicated bedroom with more privacy, without making the space feel too cramped.

Our approach was to strip away any unnecessary internal linings, revealing the industrial beauty of the original robust and raw warehouse finishes. Once removed, the solid brickwork perimeter walls were exposed, along with a concrete soffit and structural frame. These beams and columns subdivided the space into three distinct zones from front to back. However, as the property is single aspect, the living and dining spaces necessitated placement near valuable natural light.

A central birch ply clad ‘cube’ acts as a mediator between these zones, maintaining an open-plan space by being both efficient and functional, housing part of the kitchen and ample bedroom storage. The generous kitchen also becomes a means of circulating laterally across the flat and around the cube, meaning no space is lost to corridors.

Client

Private

Completion

2018

Location

Wapping, Tower Hamlets, London

Images

Nicholas Worley