Urban housing, Finsbury
Park, London
Sergison Bates architects LLP
Mies van der Rohe Award Nominee 2009
Project description
The project involves the complete redevelopment of an urban site on Seven
Sisters Road, on the edge of Finsbury Park in north London. Three new
urban villas of varying height are arranged around a shared pace and are
treated as a tightly knit cluster, continuing the typology of villas on
Seven Sisters Road and providing forty-four one- to four- bedroom apartments
for mixed tenure.
Photographs : Stefan Mueller
As a reaction to the paper-thin appearance of much affordable housing,
we developed buildings that feel solid and substantial, with a strong
tectonic expression of brick and concrete elements that gives them a sense
of permanence and weight reminiscent of the nineteenth century villas
that exist in this area of London.
The walls are arranged in piers between full height window assemblies
with a structure of concrete flat slab and columns. The brickwork, in
burnt browns and reds with flush mortar joints, appears in counterpoint
to the gently undulating and modulated external wall. The faint forms
of bay windows and set-backs suggest both familiarity and difference in
a way that feels appropriate within this urban situation, while the space
between buildings is charged by the subtle differences between building
volumes and their relation to one another.
Apartments are arranged in each corner of the building plan with a central
lift core and stair located on an external wall.
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