This project was recently completed for a young creative couple, working in the film industry as a producer and cameraman. The clients had found a site near East Street market in Elephant Castle, which had previously been used as a store for market carts with only a steel roller shutter as the ground floor façade.

The site was consolidated into a new building with only half of the façade and the flank walls remaining from the entire original structure. The clients were working with a pretty tight budget for a relatively ambitious new build project which required some creative architectural solutions.

The ground floor façade was split into strip sections of frosted glass and wooden vertical beams which both allowed light into the kitchen area and reduced the amount of rendered surface area for passing kids wielding a spray paint can.

The ground level is a large open living area with a large custom built island kitchen unit and a courtyard. The top floor has been divided into three bedrooms and a study with a balcony at the back.