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London, United Kingdom
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Phipp Street
London, United Kingdom
18 Phipp Street is a mid-19thCentury structure built robustly to accommodate multiple Victorian purposes from small scale manufacturing, clerk offices and storage. The 20th Century saw a great deal of the centre and mid-town stock turned to office or residential use accompanied with regulation compliant layers of plasterboard, internal partitions, suspended ceilings, floors smoke lobbies and paraphernalia. Hiding the metal fabric and simple Victorian architectonic language and providing poorer quality environments.
The building was recently purchase and Amin Taha Architects were appointed on the back of their Golden Lane RIBA award winning project to help bring it to better use. Native instruments, a Berlin based tech company, expressed an interest in the second floor with the option of expanding into the first. To allow that flexibility while maintaining useable floor area a strategy was chosen to make double use of the same staircases. By walking over the acoustic and fire enclosure of the buildings common circulation to connect the first and second floors. More generally a combined design team of fire engineers, approved inspectors, acoustic, sustainability and structural engineers set out to meet current regulations that would remove the suspended ceilings, raised floors, plasterboard layers to reveal the original fabric and allow good daylight penetration to create a better internal environment.
The building was recently purchase and Amin Taha Architects were appointed on the back of their Golden Lane RIBA award winning project to help bring it to better use. Native instruments, a Berlin based tech company, expressed an interest in the second floor with the option of expanding into the first. To allow that flexibility while maintaining useable floor area a strategy was chosen to make double use of the same staircases. By walking over the acoustic and fire enclosure of the buildings common circulation to connect the first and second floors. More generally a combined design team of fire engineers, approved inspectors, acoustic, sustainability and structural engineers set out to meet current regulations that would remove the suspended ceilings, raised floors, plasterboard layers to reveal the original fabric and allow good daylight penetration to create a better internal environment.
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