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Shepherdess Walk |
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10-22 Shepherdess Walk, London (Manhattan Loft Corporation) |
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This project has been
short-listed for numerous awards and was the recipient of an RIBA
Award for Architecture in 2000. It is recognized as a model for the
refurbishment of warehouse-type buildings. The building is an 110,000sqft 6-storey courtyard warehouse. The scheme combines residential (floors 1-4) with ground floor commercial units sold as 'shells' and basement parking. Units have been developed to coincide with the original party walls thereby retaining the original grain of the building. The most obvious transformations, however, concern the courtyard and roof. The courtyard sets this building apart. Modified by new steelwork structures which support and frame one's experience of the building, the courtyard is both a lung and the centre of gravity. The idea of framing views recurs throughout the building: in the lift tower (a series of glazed steel frame), on the decks, and in the rooftop pavilions. The planners supported the idea of replacing the existing skylights with a series of detached rooftop pavilions. Each of the thirteen upper apartments are provided with a pavilion and rooftop garden conjuring up a garden suburb in the heart of the city. The new construction uses known efficiencies – standard steel sections, used in conjunction with a palette of Iroko, zinc and glass providing warmth, enclosure and transparency respectively. Gradually the warm timber and bright zinc have weathered and subdued. The project is published in Bauwelt (30 Oct 1998), a+t (1999), Architects Journal (24 June 1999), Quaderns (2000), Architectural Review (Jan 2001) and Princeton Press's Materiality By Design. |
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