Located in Shoreditch a redundant brick workshop building was refurbished and transformed into Jasper Morrison’s design office and studio. The site was accessible via a narrow Dickensian alley originally connecting a terrace of brick housing on whose party walls the present steel workshop and brick construction was built.
The collaboration with Jasper led to a sensitive response to the conservation area context. Minimal interventions matched the atmosphere of the built fabric of the existing building. A portion of the existing building interior was sacrificed to make a new city courtyard to provide another type of space.
The refurbished building retained the sense of place of the original workshop by specifying rude materials of unfinished rough sawn oak and industrial natural asphalt tiles and where possible the existing structure exposed.
Material Used :
1. Walls - London stock brickwork
2. Floors - Natural Asphalt Floor tiling
3. Glazing - Crittal W20 Window Glazing
4. Rooflights - Vitral
5. Roof - Corus Fal ZInc
