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PROJECT REPORT: RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS
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The studios have floor-to-ceiling windows, built-in joinery and ‘smart’ integrated storage
PROJECT FACTFILE
Planning approval: July 2019 Completion: October 2022 Occupation: November 2022 Site area: 0.54 ha Gross internal area: 11,166 m2 Internal amenity area: 1,657 m2 External amenity area: 520 m2 Net internal area: 5,887 m2 Project cost: £35m
range of shared amenities and communal spaces, including a gym, yoga studio, and cinema, plus a large, well-landscaped roof terrace with great views across London. There are also a range of more private nooks around the building, such as within the central entrance hub staircase, and window seats on the first floor overlooking the river. Last but not least, there’s a fully- equipped, ‘Masterchef-style’ shared kitchen, fitted out to a professional standard, and enabling residents to cook socially together if desired, helping to increase their sense of connection and community. This is a ‘24-hour building,’ predicated around the fact that many workers who will be tenants here will be on a variety of shift patterns. This means that the amenities will be available to tenants around the clock, making full use of the building functions, as well as creating a set of challenges for the operator such as staffing.
The development offers tenants a level of quality and finish which is comparable with that of a hotel, in the studios themselves as well as the various shared amenity spaces. For example, due to the care paid to acoustic insulation, the rooms facing the railway line are not troubled by excessive
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train noise. As part of the fully-serviced nature of the compact studio flats, cooling as well as heating is provided which means windows don’t have to be opened for a comfortable environment.
Ecology & sustainability The designers took various steps to try and minimise the impact on local nature. Careful consideration was given to the lighting levels, as well as the positioning of buildings to protect nocturnal wildlife and marine life, including bats and water voles around the site and along the river corridor. This all-electric development is BREEAM Excellent and EPC A rated, and placed life cycle assessment of embodied carbon at the core of the design.
Despite not being a requirement of planning the project’s outset, Halcyon commissioned a Carbon Lifecycle Assessment. An analysis of material, efficiency and cost at each design stage saw changes including reusing the majority of the existing concrete slab (for piling mat and sub-base); reduced concrete slab and floor build-up, and switching to a brick-slip system. The assessment found embodied carbon for the product and construction
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