1View into site from London
2Interior perspective across the central volume
3View towards the street frontage
4Spatial view through the primary circulation
5Interior view across the threshold condition
6Perspective through the interior
7View across the completed interior from London
8Interior perspective towards the entrance sequence
9Interior perspective towards the entrance sequence
10Interior perspective towards the entrance sequence
11Axial view towards the joinery line
12Sectional view through the perimeter condition
13Oblique view across the ceiling plane
14Oblique view across the ceiling plane
15Threshold view into the display wall
16View back towards the back-of-house transition
This project forms part of Hackney’s housing supply programme, an initiative which aims to build more than 400 homes – 70 per cent of which will be for social rent and shared ownership. The development delivers eleven new high-quality homes that replace disused garages on Mandeville Street in Lower Clapton. The project was completed in summer 2022.
The site’s unusual shape and complex boundary conditions required a nuanced massing response that blends several typologies into a coherent architectural solution. Urbanistically, the proposal aimed to restitch the site with its surroundings by introducing a new pedestrian thoroughfare that contributes to the reactivation of the public realm, while providing a clear delineation of public and private space. The development forms a townhouse block and mews, unified by their brick materiality and base. A sculptural roofscape of gabled frontages create a distinctive silhouette that echoes the Grade II Listed Mandeville Primary School.