Q-Building, Stratford
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High density, low budget residential scheme in East London
A development of new-build flats in a context of mixed ages and styles likely to be rejuvenated. Compromising five storeys of one and two-bed flats with ground level retail space, differential treatment for the retail spaces makes the building less prominent.
The elevations give a sense of movement, with sliding timber screens animating the facade, providing individual occupiers with control of their own privacy. The southern elevation uses large scale louvres in a gesticular manner, with only four blades per floor.
A steel frame structure is used with in-situ cast concrete composite floors and timber stud walls. Floor to ceiling glazing in the living rooms with internal blinds and external iroko sliding shutters.
Data
- Begun: Aug 2001
- Completed: Nov 2002
- Floor area: 463m2
- Sector: Residential
- Total cost: £2.7M
- Tender date: Mar 2001
- Procurement: JCT 98 with Quantities
- Address: 110 Grove Road , London, E15 1NR , United Kingdom
Professional Team
- Architect: Buckley Gray Yeoman
- Project architects: Dave Lomax, Mark Clarke, Matt Yeoman, Richard Buckley
- Client: East London Developments
- Structural engineer: Gardner Cann Partnership
- Services engineer: Engineering Design Consultants
- Planning supervisor: Vance Miller Planning Supervisor
- Main contractor: Durkan Pudelek
- Quantity surveyor: ADS Associates
Suppliers
- Precast concrete cladding: Mooncrete
- Aluminium Cladding: ALPS-Colt
- Architectural glazing: Architectural Aluminium
- Precast floor: Milibank Floors