Make Architects completed Derwent London’s biggest challenge, a mixed-use project with 321,000 pi2 of work surface and 45,000 pi2 of residential housing made up of social housing. Located eighty streets away from Charlotte in Fitzrovia, the challenge is intrinsically the city in its integration of the context of the city and the avenue, each in its mass and composition. The inclusion of a small new public lawn and the retail downloading to this civic quality.
The program contains a massive online insular website for use largely in the workplace of the companies (80 Charlotte Street), with a personal apartment corner (Charlotte Apartments) and an adjacent block of recent apartments above the floor of the workplace accommodation (Asta House).
The 80 Charlotte Street Online Challenge Island website was initially transformed into a 1960s headquarters built in the workplace and formerly occupied by Saatchi & Saatchi. This larger block is rectangular in size of 90 m and has been mixed into a single construction. The structure imaginatively combines the current fabric with elements of new construction, and is characterized by various facade treatments, reverses and terraces. This approach fragments the outer block to a scale that is considered smaller, yet maintains deep and flexible floor planes. The workspace has been authorized as the headquarters for each Boston Consulting Group and Arup; the latter is also the challenge engineer.
From the starting of the conditioning process, Make opted to relocate and consolidate the cores of the current houses at the center of the plan so that 3 atria could want to dot each corner and attract a soft and gentle ventilation.
As the challenge evolved, this key design pass remained and was the critical driving force for the scheme. These atria further imply the factor in which the cladding divides at the level of the facades to provide a spoil perceived within the total while being considered from the avenue. The views from the skylights and framed bay windows imitate the rhythm and scale of the town houses surrounded, supporting to liven up the street landscape.
The façades blend vintage and new, with a rich blend of textures, substances and diverse papers to reflect the surrounding area. The concrete of the custom panel wraps 1/2 of the block and frames the removed house windows with deep revelations. Pink and yellow preserved quantities of bricks on Whitfield Street are completed with a long-standing dark gray Petersen brick overlooking Chitty Street and Charlotte Street, while a sculptural portico of altered metal marks the main facade on Charlotte Street.
The fabric palette also flows through the interior, with shuttering panel concrete expressed in the atrium, black concrete floor within the front areas, Danish oak floors at the reception and a structural metal body uncovered everywhere. The layout contrasts with the softness and shade – for example, the collection of doors starts as a one-story area before climbing up to the main reception filled with tip under the atrium.
The current floor-to-floor peak, about 3.3 m, as dictated by the preserved Whitfield Street facades, has been transformed into a short-range structural body. Work hard with Arup to combine the shape and bidding zones to maximize ground heights, with the genuine disposition pattern for offers to remain uncovered.
The ground floor was designed to behave as larger than a business reception, offering a space for tenants to request for occasions and social activities. An island cafe-bar will address each tenant and the public, while tenants and visitors can also take a dedicated increase on the rooftop terrace, where a 2d bar enjoys good prospects throughout North London and the city.
As much as the maintenance and reuse of the current large facades, the building was designed as a fully electric building, using no fossil fuel, CHP or diesel. Instead, it uses renewable electricity or petrol as soon as it becomes available, ensuring the future of an alternative in London’s electricity supply. The atria also attract and recycle foamy air, which can be mixed with open windows outside the home for a mixed-mode strategy.