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PROJECT REPORT: RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS
CO-WORKING SPACE
The co-working areas are characterised by light and space, exposed services and earthy tones
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Funder: DTZ Investors Developer: Halcyon Development Partners Architect: Assael Architecture Contractor: McAleer & Rushe Operator: Folk Co-living Landscape: Farrer Huxley/Park Hood Interior design: Assael Interiors/ Atypical Practice
room’ with its cinema-sized screen and comfortable chairs. On the north end of the block is the ‘co-working mezzanine,’ benefi tting from diffused daylight and a variety of spaces to work, and the fi tness suite sits along the western fl ank. Ed Sharland says he believes the co- working space will be “used extensively by residents,” with a benefi t that it enables them to “easily separate their work/life space and time,” due to it being separated from the living spaces. “We know this has been an issue since Covid, and there has been growth in fl exible working nationwide.” There’s also a plan to allow local residents to use the space on a membership basis. The restaurant, named ‘Louis,’ was opened in Autumn, run by a local restauranteur.
Industrial inspiration
The buildings’ industrial-style detailing includes large dark grey metal-framed windows in the brick facades, and different red and pink brick used across the forms breaks up the facades and gives the feel of a series of buildings constructed over time, as the mills of the past often were. The varied
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roofscapes include pitched roof gables and a lantern-style front roof, strongly conjuring a feel of old industrial buildings. The warehouse-inspired, highly regular fenestration arrangement is leavened by the splayed, chamfered forms of the window apertures, whose deep reveals provide dramatic shadows at certain times of day. Says Emily Newton: “It creates a really nice zig-zagging facade pattern.” And the external fi re escape stairs are in dark grey metal, a further contributor to the proudly industrial look.
The industrial-style metalwork is a distinctive feature throughout, especially signalled by the external steel W-beams which support a section of the ‘fi rst fl oor’ above the double-height glazed entrance, and add some dynamics to the overall look. There are also the vertical I-beam columns, and perforated metal balustrading, and all elements are in dark grey. The external design language of earthy tones and unfi nished surfaces, partly inspired by the river, continues in the interior, alongside notions of ‘wabi- sabi’ design (embracing “transience and imperfection”). Featuring a “pared-back
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