Lansdowne Mews

Lansdowne Mews, London, United Kingdom

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Lansdowne Mews

Lansdowne Mews, London, United Kingdom

Type

Residential › Multi Unit Housing

YEAR

2007

The
client, Brick by Brick LHAG, a charity providing housing for low priority homeless persons, wanted to develop the site with a mix of residential units
and a support office and community facilities. Robustness
and sustainability were at the heart of the project as was the high quality of
the design, a higher level than that normally associated with social housing.

This
was a challenging sloping site, between existing houses and formerly occupied
by a builders yard. The key design move
was to step the building up the site, giving access at half landings and then
stacking similar accommodation. The
result, 11 flats in four different blocks around the core, topped by a four way
pitched roof, breaking down the scale of the building in relation to adjacent
housing and crowned with an engineered timber rooflight, bringing light from
all directions into the centre of the building.

The
building is unreservedly robust and solid, a brickwork skin, galvanised rough
oak balconies with integrated planters.