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Artillery Mansions in Westminster
Residential Development in central London, UK – design by FORMstudio
7 Dec 2016
Artillery Mansions in Westminster
Design: FORMstudio
Location: Westminster, London, England
Artillery Mansions

“As an architect working on residential projects I sometimes feel that I am at war with corridors! Why deliver larger less-affordable apartments where half the floor area is wasted through poor design, when it?s possible to create better designed compact living spaces at a truly affordable price"? Malcolm Crayton, Director, FORMstudio

Built in the 1990s, the original layout of this central London developer-built flat had conformed to the standard cookie cutter solution. Defined almost entirely by compliance with regulations and conservative market convention, the front door had opened onto an unwelcoming windowless L-shaped corridor, with solid fire doors providing the necessary separation from the rooms, including a charmless and entirely separate internal kitchen.
FORMstudio?s re-imagining of this flat demonstrates how a fresh approach can make much better use of the available floor area in a typical developer flat of this type by incorporating the previously wasted the space of the internal corridor, optimising area to create a more generous, flexible and naturally-lit open-plan arrangement.

Within this open-plan space, a central ...