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Michaelides Apartment, London |
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This installation of concrete walls updates the maison miminum in a London loft apartment. It was shortlisted for an RIBA Award for Architecture in 2000.
The host space is mostly brick walled. Into this envelope two concrete walls are sat concealing a shower room and storage thereby organising the space into an apartment for a single person. The two walls are constructed from concrete planks laid stretcher bond in the same manner as the brickwork envelope. At one end 750mm planks complete the walls, with the pattern accentuated at the other by cantilevering the planks. The walls act in a homogeneous manner to provide anchorage and restraint for the cantilevers by means of reinforcement cast within the wall in frogs and vertical slots. The floor is conceived as a mat defining an orthogonal place within the irregular volume of the host space. Dimensioned as multiples of a plywood module, the floor shares its long dimension with the 1.5m concrete planks. The perimeter between plywood and wall is laid with 'liquid' screed. Lighting is provided by linear tungsten tubes and concealed fluorescents, which mark the joints between concrete and plywood, masking connections and 'dematerialising' the heaviness of the actual materials. The project is published in Building Design (29 Sept 2000) and Princeton Press's 'Materiality By Design'. |
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