Ada Street | Amin Taha Architects
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Located off Broadway Market, south of London Fields in one of the poorer, but upcoming east-end areas, Ada Street accommodates six apartments above two small retail units in an area with the largest number of different languages spoken in the city with the largest population of artist per square kilometer in Europe. With creative shops, bars and clubs to reflect the Local Authority?s more relaxed approach to design aesthetics, Amin Taha Architects formed a structure asymmetrical in appearance with subtly battered and sloping walls and floor plates and a gentle scattering of window openings.
Photography:Â Charles Hosea
The building is finished in an all-encompassing monolithic black render making up all external elements of the building including, parapets, sills, and window reveal. Internally exposed block-work, concrete floors, and ceilings with some gypsum partitions the apartments.
The client expressed an ambition for utility and unadorned domesticity. The practice?s general strategy is to find a binding aesthetic form with a reduced material palette. The detail illustrates the extension of this logic through the use of fewer, yet standard products to reduce construction junction types, associated specialist trades, their time on site and associated costs.
Photography:Â Charles Hosea
Externally, the Dryvit insulated render system, certified to 24 degrees from the horizontal, is used to perform a number of rol...
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