Structure studio Turner Works has used “sturdy, hardworking” supplies in its extension of an outdated textile manufacturing website in London’s Harringay Warehouse District, reworking it into the Florentia Village artistic hub.
Commissioned by developer Common Tasks, Turner Works added a 9290-square-metre extension to the Nineteen Seventies garments manufacturing facility to create a house for 50 artistic companies in north London.
According to the location’s industrial character, Turner Works added 4 metal buildings in an area beforehand occupied by storage containers, greater than doubling the advanced’s unique footprint.
Florentia Village now presents companies versatile workshops, studios and industrial models starting from 46 to 1,400 sq. metres, alongside neighborhood areas and a restaurant, organized round courtyards and walkways.
“Our method seeks to supply a way of character and playfulness, supporting critical and significant work, utilizing sturdy, hardworking supplies in a chic approach,” Turner Works founding director Carl Turner instructed Dezeen.
“The design attracts immediately from the commercial vernacular of the prevailing maker’s areas – we borrowed components such because the sawtooth roof kinds, diversified roof pitches, clerestory home windows and the usage of vibrant metallic accents already on website,” he mentioned.
In response to Turner Works, a cloth palette of corrugated galvanised metal, inexperienced fibre cement panels and polycarbonate glazing was chosen with sturdiness, sustainability and industrial character in thoughts.
Bolted metal frames have been utilised to present the brand new buildings geometric kinds, whereas serving to to scale back development waste and permitting for parts to be dismantled and recycled on the finish of their life span.
The buildings are enlivened by accents of vivid pink and orange, mixed with playful signage, supposed to echo the location’s unique aesthetic, which featured vivid colors round window openings.
Crowning the extension are sawtooth and monopitched roofs, oriented to maximise pure daylight and allow on-site photo voltaic power technology.
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“Color is a central part of the undertaking – it ties collectively the outdated and the brand new, and fills the campus with character,” mentioned Turner.
Contained in the 4 metal buildings, every of the ground-floor workshops is provided with a mezzanine stage, supposed to offer house for a mixture of studio and manufacturing work.
Above, smaller attic studios providing versatile workspaces are interconnected through vibrant exterior raised walkways and courtyards.
The interiors are completed in concrete, blockwork and oriented strand board timber (OSB) panels.
“For a lot of the models, the purpose was intentionally to not impose a set inside design – as a substitute, we wished to create an adaptable backdrop to permit companies to personalise their areas and depart their very own mark over time,” defined Turner.
“In distinction, for the reception and co-working house, we drew from the identical industrial materials palette, utilized in extra refined and crafted methods,” he mentioned.
In addition to the brand new additions designed by Turner Works, Common Tasks restored and upgraded the material of the prevailing 7,400-square-metre warehouse and manufacturing facility house to the northeast of the location.
Turner Works is a London-based structure and design studio established by architect Carl Turner in 2006. Elsewhere, the studio has transformed a Dutch barn into a vacation house and inventive retreat within the Cotswolds and prolonged a barn in Norfolk that’s lined with oriented strand board.
The pictures is by Tom Fallon.
