Proposed
Metaphorm Architects
Creative light industrial and residential mixed-use development by Metaphorm Architects providing a makers hub, 170 market and affordable homes plus new public realm, located at the viaducts crossing.
“Artists, designers and makers across London are struggling to retain a foothold in the capital. Many existing studio and workshop spaces in inner London are under pressure of redevelopment, typically to meet high housing demand, resulting in employment land and jobs being taken away from these communities.
The design for Wellfit+Hardess addresses the pressing need for a new socio-economic, urbanistic, and architectural model for co-locating creative light industrial spaces with housing, providing a vision of a new kind of town planning for London that symbiotically places hubs of specialist production facilities for communities of designers and makers within residential neighbourhoods. Its architectural design principles seek to ensure a comfortable and unencumbered relationship between live and work areas and to carefully address their side-by-side location through the creation of successful interfaces. A new typological hybrid has emerged, with re-deployment potential across urban sites of similar character.”
Dr Joseph Watters, Director, Metaphorm Architects
‘Artists, designers and makers across London are struggling to retain a foothold in the capital. Many existing studio and workshop spaces in inner London are under pressure of redevelopment, typically to meet high housing demand, resulting in employment land and jobs being taken away from these communities. The design for Wellfit+Hardess addresses the pressing need for a new socio-economic, urbanistic, and architectural model for co-locating creative light industrial spaces with housing, providing a vision of a new kind of town planning for London that symbiotically places hubs of specialist production facilities for communities of designers and makers within residential neighbourhoods. Its architectural design principles seek to ensure a comfortable and unencumbered relationship between live and work areas and to carefully address their side-by-side location through the creation of successful interfaces. A new typological hybrid has emerged, with re-deployment potential across urban sites of similar character.’ Dr Joseph Watters, Director, Metaphorm Architects
Project information
Status
Proposed
Borough
Lambeth
Completion
2022
Location
1 Hardess St, London SE24 0HN, UK
Team Credits
Client
Essee
Architects / Development Management
Metaphorm Architects
Planning Consultants
Interpolitan Ltd
Townscape / Heritage
Citydesigner
Structural / Civil Engineers
MEP / Sustainability / Acoustics Engineers
Quantity Surveyors
Culture / Creative Industrial Consultants
BOP Consulting
Market Advisory / Affordable Housing
Stakeholders Engagement
Daylight Consultants
Waldrams
Transport Engineers
Markides Associates
Fire Engineers
Astute Fire
Wind / Microclimate Engineers
BMT
Verified Visualisations
Cityscape Digital
Environmental Consultants
Lustre Consulting
Ecology Consultants
MKA Ecology
CDM Principal Designer
Listed by
Metaphorm Architects
Last updated on
31/05/2024
Standard
Standard (small business)
Partner