Private Housing
Colony flat, Arden flat block, Ivy house, D flat, Dune house
Colony flat - 2020
An extension to a highly unusual mini-courtyard house in London.
Converting a terrace to create a cohesive home with an enlarged kitchen area off the main living room to serve the needs of its occupiers better. As a result, a cohesive sustainability strategy underpinned the intervention, considering the environmental performance of building elements not only in the short term but across their whole life span. Specific environmental provisions included new LED light fittings, insulation, argon-filled double glazing and a new water-based underfloor heating system to ensure even heat distribution and avoid cold spots and draughts. JKA
Arden flat block - 2019
A 10-storey mixed-use residential building in London.
The existing building was underperforming in several areas, significantly impacting resident amenities. A careful audit, as well as consultation with the residents, developed a clear design rationale was proposed for a series of refurbishment works to improve it. Rearranging the ground floor service spaces helped provide accommodation for an on-site caretaker. Alongside this, new cladding details were proposed for the existing balconies, flood voids, bin stores and ancillary areas on the front elevation. A renewed rooftop play space, enclosures to both entry lobbies, and new illuminated signage, paving and planting to improve the shared areas in front of the building. JKA
Ivy house - 2017
A U-shaped extension to a former Victorian pub/community centre in London.
The scheme, located in the Hoxton Street conservation area, retained and restored the façade of the original Victorian pub, while redeveloping the site and adjacent land to provide a larger more fit for purpose community facility at ground and basement level, with a residential unit on the upper floors. The design responds to the sites fragmentary urban field, an island that is the last remaining piece of what was once a terraced street, long since demolished by either bombing or planners. SJS
D flat - 2013
A renovated flat in central Tokyo for a physicist turned banker.
Comfort and luxury in a city with such high density is defined modestly - by depth of space and an absence of wasted ground. This flat was originally built the other way round - a typical Tokyo living space. It was made with a wildly inefficient series of small isolated rooms and very low ceilings. The renovation simplified the organisation and introduce as much depth as possible. The rooms were connected as a chain of spaces, without hallways, in order to maximize comfort and develop a sense of space without any waste. Ceilings were raised as high as possible, and all exterior surfaces were finished with concrete panels over a new layer of insulation. Existing service ducts were replaced with insulated concrete pipes, but exposed as needed, becoming a feature of the home. FO
Dune house - 2013
One of eight houses designed for a peculiar location facing the Pacific coast of Chile.
It was part of an architectural initiative known as “Ocho al Cubo”, it gathered both Chilean and Japanese designers with the intention of promoting new architectural expressions through the development of projects free of conventional requirements. In this design the inhabitants were to live in direct contact with the terrain. The open place living space was navigated by various contours which defined areas of use and privacy. KKAA