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Westbourne Grove
London, United Kingdom
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Westbourne Grove
London, United Kingdom
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2008
This property is typical of 5 storey Georgian and Victorian terraces where plans are
approximately 4-5m by 9-10m with floor heights diminishing with the number of
levels from the piano noble to the attic level. The party wall span gives these
buildings an inherent flexibility that has seen them go through single family
occupation, multiple flats, bed-sits, offices and shops. In 2001 this property
accommodated a shop, office and apartment, our objective was to work
principally with the interior, retaining the shop unit expanding it into the
lower ground area and return the upper parts to one family dwelling.
The structural and occupational simplicity/flexibility became the design generators
for removing all internal walls. Thereby a contemporary structural solution
would allow the full floor plate to span across the envelope walls. Each floor
becoming open plan and the building in its essence stripped back to a shell. Vertical
circulation is visible and expressed as a continuation of the floor plate from one level to another.
With such a cold blank canvas the occupier is therefore
free to decide whether the floors are office, residential or shop. At this
stage the building can be seen as inert and ready for occupation.
If occupation is the definition of area through boundaries then its
differentiation is its culture intent. A developed differentiation allows ease
of identification which is often a bypass to mediation, leaving our
interventions to reinforce separation. It was decided that the beauty of this architype’s
ability to recycle and oscillate from one purpose to the other should be
retained, heightened through detail and material specification leaving it
clearly independent. In this way the single family dwelling was from the outset
a visitor whose definition would be mediated over the common ground of the
sheltering envelope and services, spatial delineation attracting identification
through preferred usage. Micro intervention or personalisation becomes an
apparent and conscious action for consideration where ‘home’ develops an
identity and understanding over time that is inclusive of the area outside the
threshold.
approximately 4-5m by 9-10m with floor heights diminishing with the number of
levels from the piano noble to the attic level. The party wall span gives these
buildings an inherent flexibility that has seen them go through single family
occupation, multiple flats, bed-sits, offices and shops. In 2001 this property
accommodated a shop, office and apartment, our objective was to work
principally with the interior, retaining the shop unit expanding it into the
lower ground area and return the upper parts to one family dwelling.
The structural and occupational simplicity/flexibility became the design generators
for removing all internal walls. Thereby a contemporary structural solution
would allow the full floor plate to span across the envelope walls. Each floor
becoming open plan and the building in its essence stripped back to a shell. Vertical
circulation is visible and expressed as a continuation of the floor plate from one level to another.
With such a cold blank canvas the occupier is therefore
free to decide whether the floors are office, residential or shop. At this
stage the building can be seen as inert and ready for occupation.
If occupation is the definition of area through boundaries then its
differentiation is its culture intent. A developed differentiation allows ease
of identification which is often a bypass to mediation, leaving our
interventions to reinforce separation. It was decided that the beauty of this architype’s
ability to recycle and oscillate from one purpose to the other should be
retained, heightened through detail and material specification leaving it
clearly independent. In this way the single family dwelling was from the outset
a visitor whose definition would be mediated over the common ground of the
sheltering envelope and services, spatial delineation attracting identification
through preferred usage. Micro intervention or personalisation becomes an
apparent and conscious action for consideration where ‘home’ develops an
identity and understanding over time that is inclusive of the area outside the
threshold.
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