Architect’s description.-
"The project involved the conversion of the top two floors of a Victorian former clog-making factory into a home for a filmmaker. It makes somewhere in the city which takes advantage of the wonderful city views around it.
The existing roof structure is replaced with two steel and timber box girders, big enough to be habitable, which span the brick walls. As well as supporting the new roof, the girders provide an organizational structure, creating a territory of enclosure and screening. The space formed inside one girder is a rooftop “thinking room”, with views across the terrace and the city beyond. The other girder is glazed to create a room-like window bringing light and volume down to the floor below. Different terraces occupy the spaces between these two enclosures. These spaces are seen as being analogous to sweetmeat rooms on the roofs of English renaissance palaces.
On the lower floors interventions into the existing building are minimal. A bathroom and kitchen are formed from in-situ concrete, conceived as large pieces of furniture built within the existing brick fabric of the building. These items of furniture are used to delineate space and create thresholds in lieu of physical walls."
CREDITS.
Architect.- Dow Jones Architects.
Place.- Londres, Inglaterra.
Design team.- Alun Jones, Biba Dow, James Grayley.
Structural Consultant.- ABP Engineers.
Contractor.- Mark Richardson & Co.
