Two industrial designers required a place to live and work, as well as a sanctuary that could help them escape from the bustling city. The perfect location was found on a very constrained site in an industrial alleyway that runs parallel to Bethnal Green Road, a busy shopping street in London.
Design concept and solution: The building is designed to minimize views so as to create a sense of shelter from the outside world. The studio and living spaces are arranged as two interlocking L-shaped forms, with a balcony overlooking the studio carved out of the bedroom wall. Bound on three sides by two-story party walls, from the street the building is expressed as a foreign object “wedged” into the existing structures. The design provides a bold counterpoint to the disheveled alleyway but the pared down neutrality of materials and anonymity of the entrance minimizes intrusion.
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