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Levine Apartment, London |
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This enlargement of a fourth-floor one-bedroom flat in Central London provided a young art collector a gallery to live in through the addition of a new floor.
Our design located an open-plan living space in a new mansard storey. The space turned its back on the north facing street, instead looking out over London's rooftops to the south through a full height screen. The screen was to give access to a roof terrace. In addition to the main stair the Building Regulations introduced the need for a second means of escape from this upper storey to the communal stair below. This 'ladder' and kitchen-bar are amalgamated in zinc 'sculpture' which runs from front to back, stepping out of the floor towards the south-the 'ladder' was to become a discrete way to fetch the vital ingredient for a dinner party whilst all the guests were assembled. Protracted discussions with the planners eliminated the roof terrace and south-facing screen. Instead we introduced a 3 by 2 metre retractable skylight, which was to create the 'garden' within the living room. The living space is otherwise 'empty'. The original living room downstairs has become the new hall, second bathroom and third bedroom, and the remaining rooms, now bedrooms. Materials are simple: zinc, maple, canvas, glass and white tiles with a backdrop of white walls, ceilings and rafts. The project is published in the RIBA Journal (March 1999). |
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