Cluster Block Keeling House

Friederike Schneider

Description

Drawings

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Floor plan diagram, scale 1:500

Source: Oliver Heckmann

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6th floor: 1-room apartments, scale 1:200 with corresponding complete floor plan

Source: Denys Lasdun

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Entrance floor of duplex apartments, scale 1:200 with corresponding complete floor plan

Source: Denys Lasdun

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Upper floor of duplex apartments, scale 1:200 with corresponding complete floor plan

Source: Denys Lasdun

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Cross section of single tower

Source: Denys Lasdun

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Rendering of central access core with communal spaces

Source: Denys Lasdun

Photos

Street view from the South

Source: Denys Lasdun

Originally published in: Oliver Heckmann, Friederike Schneider (eds.), Floor Plan Manual Housing, fourth revised and expanded edition, Birkhäuser, 2011.

Building Type Housing

Morphological Type High-Rise

Urban Context Modernist Urban Fabric, Urban Block Structure

Architect Denys Lasdun + Partners

Year 1958

Location London

Country Great Britain

Geometric Organization Cluster

Building Depth 7.5 – 9.25 m

Number of Units 64

Size of Units 1-Room Apts., Approx. 50 m² (8 units)
3-Room Duplex Apts., Approx. 90 m² (56 units)

Height High-Rise (8 levels and more)

Load-Bearing Structure Column-and-Slab

Access Type Gallery/Street in the Air

Layout Duplex/Triplex, Zoning

Outdoor Space of Apartment Balcony

Parking Street parking

New Building, Refurbishment or Extension New Building

Additional Information Quadruple tower (cluster) 16 stories facing NNE/SSW, NNW/SSE

Address Claredale Street
London-Bethnal Green

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