Architecture studio Alma-nac has refurbished a former warehouse in south London to create space for music studios that line a central "street" decorated with geometric plywood panels.
Alma-nac designed the facility for London-based enterprise The Axis, which wants to provide a nationwide network of writing and production spaces for music professionals.
Above: The Axis occupies a former warehouse. Top image: Alma-nac introduced an internal street inside
The Axis on Ormside is the organisation's first site and responds to the need for acoustically designed songwriting and production studios with client-facing facilities.
Located on a former industrial estate in South Bermondsey, the brick warehouse was identified as a suitable site due to the area's abundance of creative businesses and the proximity of recording facilities at the nearby Atomic Studios. The central street is decorated with geometric plywood panels
Alma-nac made the most of the two-storey building's internal volume by creating a full-height space that exposes the existing roof trusses and allows daylight to flood in through new transparent panels inserted into the roof.
The architects created an internal street that runs along the spine of the building and is flanked on either side by ten soundproofed studios.
It leads into ten soundproofed studios
"The existing building provided a weatherproof enclosure and the freedom to create a series of carefully controlled local environments, and to positi...