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The calm repetitive street facade gives way to a more ad-hoc rear elevation. The saw tooth roof of No. 98 was retained and refurbished, alongside generous galleried decks to serve each floor of No. 100
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The Gordon Matta-Clark inspired new stair core of No. 100 has rotating arcs, cut through the existing timber structure, and propped with new steel and timber diagonals
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Outdoor space plays an important part. A sequence of spaces – forecourt, a covered walkway and two interlinking courtyards made possible by the demolition of an outbuilding
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Axometric of interventions at 98-100
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Ground floor plan before (bottom) and after (top) – new courtyards link 98 and 100 De Beauvoir Road
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Courtyard, retained façade and new central core within
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First (bottom) and third (top) floor plans
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Courtyard - the design combines careful restoration with new construction
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Courtyards are laid with a mat of pink concrete and a brickwork border
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Stairs leading to new courtyard
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Isometric of a core detail
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Lapped timber detailing of the roof structure
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Toplit space linking studios (ground floor)
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The sawtooth north lights in the rear building of No. 98 were refurbished, retaining the existing steel trusses
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Top floor studio space beneath the refurbished northlights
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Toplit space linking studios (first floor)
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Precast concrete staircase and brick structure
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Perspective of staircase showing coffered insitu concrete landings, arched stair and lapped timber roof detailing
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Looking up the stairs at the timber roof at No. 98
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Stairs worm's eye perspective of No. 100
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Looking up the stairs at the timber roof of No. 100
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The Gordon Matta-Clark inspired new stair core of No. 100
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Framing the views of De Beauvoir Town
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Here on the 3rd floor office space of No. 100, new steel and timber floors span over retained existing steels into a new concrete upstand that ties the repaired brick facade together
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Office space of No. 100, new steel and timber floors span over retained existing steels into a new concrete upstand that ties the repaired brick facade together
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On the roof of No. 100, a new pavilion frames a narrow court facing south and the city
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Perimeter sliding doors providing natural ventilation
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The generous external circulation allows for greater flexible of letting within the building, as well as providing external amenity for each floor
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The new 4th floor of No. 100, built in timber and clad in EPDM rubber
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Roof pavilions are organised around a central rooftop courtyard
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Sliding doors and windows are carefully detailed to be hidden behind the timber, whilst skylights in each volume allow for excellent levels of natural light and ventilation
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Street facade with the additional new storey distinguished by a white precast concrete loggia
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Second floor of No.98 toplit space retains a memory of the demolished structure
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The project reshapes a terrace of industrial buildings, originally developed at the turn of the Twentieth Century in London’s De Beauvoir Town, to form a central yard and a new roofscape of timber structures wrapped in EPDM rubber
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Site plan