One Centaur Street

1, Centaur Street, London, United Kingdom

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One Centaur Street

1, Centaur Street, London, United Kingdom

Firm

Solidspace

Type

Residential › Apartment

YEAR

2002

SIZE

25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft

A residential apartment block based on an idea for a new housing typology for brownfield sites, a hybrid of the European horizontal apartment and the English vertical terrace house. The development transformed a derelict site to homes in an inner city environment.
Each apartment is organised as a large, open double-height living space, with adjacent bedrooms and stairs forming a buffer to the railway. The transformation of the traditional apartment plan responds to changing living and working patterns of contemporary urban households.
The generous size of the units, materials and spaces created, allow the regeneration concept, of sustainable and flexible fit, to be realised.
The building appears to be a wooden coat over a concrete frame. Closer inspection reveals all to be concrete. Internally, walls are textured concrete. Externally, they are clad with fibrous cement, mock-timber rain screen of augmenting proportions. Other than in situ concrete, all components are prefabricated.