Good Mews Story / Sanya Polescuk Architects
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Good Mews Story / Sanya Polescuk Architects
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177 m²
Yr :
2022
Producers : FAKRO, Hansgrohe, Kingspan Insulated Panels, Allgood, Astro Lighting, Bette, Dulux, Duravit, Grestec, Ketley Brick, Nu-Warmth, Osmo, Velfac, Related Lead Mills, Charles Collinge Restricted, Forbo, Granite Transformations, Histoglass, John Lewis, London Photo voltaic, +8-8-
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Textual content description offered by the architects. A brand new, low-carbon, multi-generational pair of flats has been inserted right into a Victorian Mews home in North London. Simply down the street from the architects’ studio with an condominium in a number of occupation above and 10 years on from the same work carried out there, this venture offered a chance for the observe to evaluate its method to remodeling mews homes. There at the moment are extra reclaimed supplies, extra recycled content material and extra vitality effectivity.
Initially Victorian stables with employees lodging above, the mid-terrace mews constructing had been partially transformed right into a home within the Nineteen Eighties. It included an un-insulated attic, an open garage-cum-store room on the bottom ground and an intensive variety of bogs all through. The temporary requested for an environment friendly, future-proofed, pair of self-contained properties with a break-through spot to inter-connect sooner or later. Above the 1-bed floor ground flat, the primary occupants of the upside-down 4-bed maisonette are refugees fleeing battle.
The constructing envelope is totally insulated and sealed with taped inside OSB and fitted with a whole-house MVHR system. The outdated brickwork is independently ventilated by means of the pointing weep holes. The open-plan boat-like cooking/residing area on the highest ground is roofed with reclaimed slates. On the roof, photo voltaic scorching water panels are recessed into the southern pitch whereas a pair of closely insulated, but quietly trendy dormers sit on the North-facing pitch. Although equivalent from the road, one dormer hides a full-height French door by the sitting space whereas the opposite, a smaller window with a herb backyard by the kitchen. The openings are fastidiously calibrated to maximise mild from the North and South.
Landfill and embodied carbon are decreased by means of salvaging, restoring and re-using many constructing parts discovered on web site, in addition to making use of recycled supplies and limiting the usage of cement. Timber boarding found inside plaster-boarded partitions is put in as wall cladding across the outdated winder staircase resulting in the loft; the much less good floorboards are turned 90º as cladding for the low loft partitions, the roof ties are uncovered to sit down alongside the reclaimed timberwork, the home windows are rehung and re-fitted with extra-slim double glazing and new seals; the outdated secure doorways are restored with newly-made genuine hinges forged from the unique castings.
Behind these doorways, new triple glazed home windows and doorways full the environment friendly thermal envelope letting most daylight into the area inside; as a substitute of UFH forged right into a screed, skinny pre-grooved inflexible panels float immediately on the thick ground insulation; a quite simple palette of supplies contains terrazzo tiling with 40% recycled porcelain and recycled yoghurt pot boards as kitchen items and worktops; the Warmth Pump-ready design. The elevated thermal efficiency will permit for a transition from gasoline when public acceptance permits to be used of warmth pumps in conservation areas.
