Awards:

Shortlisted RIBA House of the Year 2017

RIBA London Award 2017

Shortlisted AJ Awards

This new build house in Clerkenwell is located atop a series of listed vaults that were a prison in the 1700’s and is simultaneously overlooked by a large former school building that replaced this house of detention. Due to this restrictive context, this project sought most of its light and views from carefully crafted rooflights that forms an expressive ceiling element throughout. Views of the shared gardens can be attained through a large slim framed aluminium window – whose base is a bespoke concrete framed fireplace.

The property is clad in reclaimed London Stock brickwork that is intended be read as a continuation of the existing historic boundary wall of the old prison.

All joinery, doors and wall panelling are formed of oak and is intended to act as a datum that separates the floating form of the ceiling from the concrete floor plinth.