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The Green Machine
The Green Machine
London, United Kingdom
Finalist, 2025 A+Awards, Concepts - Architecture +Color
Project Featured on Dec 23, 2025
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The Green Machine
London, United Kingdom
Finalist, 2025 A+Awards, Concepts - Architecture +Color
Project Featured on Dec 23, 2025
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2023
SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
BUDGET
$10K - 50K
“The Green Machine” was born out of the need to rethink how to live in a compact studio flat in East-London by providing adaptable spaces to suit many different uses such as sleeping, eating, working, entertaining, lounging, etc. Our client, a young professional, was struggling to make the tiny studio flat work for all of her needs, especially as these needs expanded to include working from home during the pandemic. The design strategy focused the tight 25k budget on a grouping of joinery elements resulting in a bold intervention in one 9sqm zone to create multiple “rooms within a room”.
“The Green Machine” showcases that impactful sustainable design can happen at any scale and with any budget. Using colour/paint to repurpose & refinish rather than remove & replace as well as thoughtfully selecting material for the joinery elements resulted in both a beautiful and environmentally responsible solution to our client’s brief. The challenge was to find something that would be durable and robust, bold and fun, but equally easy to manipulate and eco-friendly. Valchromat fit the bill perfectly. As an FCS certified non-toxic MDF wood, it is not only moisture resistant and flame retardant but is manufactured from recycled pine wood and mill waste. The bold colours are created with organic dyes and unlike most man-made boards, Valchromat can be recycled at the end of its lifespan.
“The Green Machine” is a project which demonstrates that with carefully orchestrated programming, thoughtful materiality, and joyful detailing, architecture can truly be a ‘machine’ for contemporary living. By collaborating closely with local tradespeople, designing flexible and adaptable zones to suit not only specific needs but future desires as well, with ample storage, this colourful insertion transformed the underutilised space in the flat, cleverly re-thinking how we live throughout a 24hr cycle.
“The Green Machine” showcases that impactful sustainable design can happen at any scale and with any budget. Using colour/paint to repurpose & refinish rather than remove & replace as well as thoughtfully selecting material for the joinery elements resulted in both a beautiful and environmentally responsible solution to our client’s brief. The challenge was to find something that would be durable and robust, bold and fun, but equally easy to manipulate and eco-friendly. Valchromat fit the bill perfectly. As an FCS certified non-toxic MDF wood, it is not only moisture resistant and flame retardant but is manufactured from recycled pine wood and mill waste. The bold colours are created with organic dyes and unlike most man-made boards, Valchromat can be recycled at the end of its lifespan.
“The Green Machine” is a project which demonstrates that with carefully orchestrated programming, thoughtful materiality, and joyful detailing, architecture can truly be a ‘machine’ for contemporary living. By collaborating closely with local tradespeople, designing flexible and adaptable zones to suit not only specific needs but future desires as well, with ample storage, this colourful insertion transformed the underutilised space in the flat, cleverly re-thinking how we live throughout a 24hr cycle.
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