Scalloped facades of cream tones and purple brick outline a U-shaped block of flats by Bell Phillips in Marylebone, central London.
Named Cosway Road after the highway on which the constructing sits, the design of the 49-home improvement within the Lisson Grove Conservation space goals to restore the fragmented streetscape by restoring the city block.
London studio Bell Phillips needed to create a contextual and modern addition to the late Georgian and Victorian structure that surrounds the location.
“We discovered inspiration within the specific method city blocks within the space rejoice corners with curved or chamfered bays,” studio director Hari Phillips advised Dezeen.
“We translated this right into a concave inflection on the corners of our constructing, which we then prolonged right into a motif that runs alongside the principle facades,” he continued.
Bell Phillips has been commissioned by Westminster Metropolis Council to contribute to the Church Road Masterplan, a key regeneration scheme to supply the realm with new properties.
The location, which was a part of the primary part of the masterplan and earmarked for personal housing, helped to cross-subsidise the supply of 28 social rented properties in neighboring sister schemes, based on the council.
The three-sided U-shaped perimeter block consists of 49 one, two and three-bedroom residences over 5 flooring, all organized round a communal backyard impressed by conventional London markets.
The scalloped constructing is split into three distinct sections, every outlined by a brick and mortar shade that responds on to the character of the constructing throughout the road.
The fluted façade motif echoes the round columns and arched home windows of a close-by Grade II* listed church and is repeated at numerous scales all through the constructing.
“By flexing the rhythm, shade and tone of those fluted bays to match the encompassing buildings, we discovered a language for the brand new constructing that’s its personal, whereas very a lot mixing into its setting,” stated Phillips.
A palette of three bricks in tender shades of cream, polished and purple types the tonal palette of the constructing. Precast concrete sills and lintels have been coloured to match the bricks.
“Whatever the age of the buildings, the encompassing context is uniformly brick with stone or stucco particulars,” defined Phillips.
“With this in thoughts, brick felt just like the pure reply, with precast concrete as a up to date substitute for stucco as a secondary materials across the home windows, alongside the parapet and as much as the doorway surrounds,” he continued.
The studio designed the constructing's exterior partitions utilizing brick-clad prefabricated components, which it stated have been produced off-site to cut back development time.
“From the start we have been conscious that the fluted brick facade could be tough to construct in conventional hand-laid brick,” defined Phillips.
“The rhythms and proportions of the fluted facade are designed to echo the adjoining buildings, [and] these have been streamlined right into a restricted variety of repetitive curves in the course of the design course of to simplify the molds required,” he continued.
Darker mortar was used on the bottom flooring, which then transitions to a lighter shade for the flooring above.
Inside balconies carved into the facade have been designed to present the block a sculptural high quality whereas including depth and shade. The crowning residences of the constructing have non-public outside terraces providing views throughout central London.
Inside Cosway Road, the residences have a cloth palette that displays the tones and colours of the outside. Designed by Amos and Amos, the properties have massive home windows and excessive ceilings to maximise daylight.
The double and triple side residences have open-plan residing areas that open onto recessed balconies, with some properties having secondary openings to exterior areas by means of a bed room.
Cosway Road was designed by Bell Phillips to planning and delivered publish planning by Osborne Contractors with David Miller Architects.
Bell Phillips was based by Phillips and Tim Bell in 2004. The studio's earlier tasks embody larch and mirror pavilions added to a science and innovation campus in Oxfordshire and a picket 'treehouse' pavilion in London's Elephant Park.
Different London multi-unit residential tasks featured on Dezeen embody a mixed-use undertaking combining housing, artist studios and a gallery in Bermondsey by Coffey Architects and a grey brick condominium block in Clapham by Sergison Bates Architects.
Pictures is by Kilian O'Sullivan.