DEVELOPMENTS - Old Kent Road, London, SE1

This scheme involves two buildings: the first with street frontage containing a live-work unit at ground floor level with four residential units above; the second a separate small self contained double height 'studio' building at the back of the site. The schemes orthogonal form and material specificity was inspired by the sites location; the Old Kent Road façade responding to the semi-industrial urban context by providing a visually tough, untreated steel, protective outer layer to the domestic interior spaces behind.

The ribbon fenestration was intentionally set at both high and low level within the street façade, utilising transparent glazing at high level and translucent at low level, in order to mask the Old Kent Road below thus maintaining a high degree of privacy while providing good levels of natural light. Compositionally the scheme relies on two main elements: dark brown rugged brickwork referencing both the original Victorian London Stock buildings and the industrial surroundings, and cor-ten steel panels referencing the quality of rusty radiators that were previously strewn about the site.

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