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PROJECT REPORT: RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS


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the brick as well as the colour, it wouldn’t be the same building without it.” On the PRS/shared ownership towers, the top floor of apartments is clad in a cornice of yellow/orange Trespa panels, to match the Velfac panels and PPC balconies below. The late Will Alsop had originally drawn some “playful elements” to be added at high level, adding a floor to each of the towers, says Atlee. However this wasn’t possible in the end, as the scheme’s Community Infrastructure Levy calculation would have had to be redone. “CIL was just about to come in, and it would have cost more money to add something to the top, it didn’t make any financial sense.”


Interiors


The colours of the exteriors of the towers are continued through to the inside, assisting wayfinding and orientation for users, including on stair cores, bike and bin stores. The reception areas for each tower are as dramatic as the exterior with their bright floors, solid surface desks and letter boxes, contrasting dark walls, and bespoke, characterful, terracotta pendant lights. “We had initially wanted to have back-painted glass in the receptions, but that was value engineered out,” says Atlee, “so we changed walls to charcoal grey and used the back-painted glass in the lifts. It’s a relatively small area but still has a big impact.”


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The colour-matched resin floors from Flowcrete survived value engineering, says Atlee, “because it’s a small area and has long-term maintenance benefits as it’s quite hardwearing.” In the affordable housing cores, they are vinyl.


Conclusion


The scheme is now fully occupied, and the architects “plan to go back and do a post-occupancy evaluation,” says Atlee, to “check everything is working as intended.” While this scheme may not be quite as playful as some of Alsop’s previous, often flamboyantly eccentric buildings, it shows that the practice can provide elements of fun and design flair in a ‘real world’ scheme, and achieve financially robust as well as aesthetically valid results for clients and users. Lucy Atlee concludes: “It was a worthwhile exercise to solve the puzzle and make the building more efficient to the benefit of the client and occupants, as well as making it more sustainable within the confines of the existing building.” It may be a signal of a respected practice moving further into the mainstream, to bring the legacy of a great architect to a wider group of clients and projects. However it’s not leaving the more rarefied schemes behind, says Atlee: “We’re not ruling out doing more esoteric projects – but we want to build.” 


PROJECT FACTFILE


Windows: Velfac Brick: Hagemeister (supplied by Modular Clay Products) Resin floors: Flowcrete Lobby lights: Hand & Eye Studio Lifts: Orona Sanitaryware: Duravit


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