Description
A typical London street block is given a new interpretation. The basic approach: terraced apartments on both sides, gallery access in the hill interior and a grandiose five-story atrium.
The apartments have simple layouts: the sanitary elements are placed along the gallery with the individual rooms lined up after them (the different apartment sizes result from adding up these rooms). The partition between kitchen and living room is designed as a counter. All living rooms end in a vertical and slanting winter garden section, entirely glassed-in; next to it a terrace with access from all rooms.
Beneath the paved inner courtyard: neighbourhood uses (shops, restaurants, cinema).
Drawings
Floor plan diagram, scale 1:500
Typical floor plan with 1-4 room apartments, scale 1:200
Cutaway perspective of typical apartment
Sectional drawing of building complex
Photos
Exterior view
Originally published in: Oliver Heckmann, Friederike Schneider (eds.), Floor Plan Manual Housing, fourth revised and expanded edition, Birkhäuser, 2011.