PHIPP STREET

摘要

Following the completion of its RIBA Award-winning Golden Lane office building, the practice was asked to investigate the refurbishment possibilities of 18 Phipp Street, a Victorian structure in Shoreditch with a range of previous purposes from small-scale manufacturing to clerks' offices to storage. Its existing mixed-usefunction was accompanied by regulation-compliant layers of plasterboard, internal partitions, suspended ceilings, floors, smoke lobbies and paraphernalia, maskingthe original material and internal form. Ateam of engineersand consultants helped create a compliant strategy to strip away these layers and express the original materials and structural fabric. Additionally, and to allow internal connection between floors without losing area or affecting escape routes from upper residential floors, two staircases becamethree.