Co Working Offices in Stratford, London Interior Development, English Architecture Photos
Co Working Offices in Stratford
7 Aug 2020
Co Working Offices
Design: Stamos Yeoh Architects
Location: 11 Burford Road, Stratford, East London, England, UK

Stamos Yeoh Architects recently completed a co-working office development project in Stratford, London for us&co which features what the architects think to be a unique one-off helical pre-cast concrete staircase.

The stairs travel from ground to first floor level, involves 20 reinforced concrete treads, each one cast individually from a bespoke fibreglass mould, and then laid above each other.

In order to support the staircase during construction, each tread was propped up with timber formwork, and as the stairs went up, three tensile steel cables were fed through each tread, all the way from base to top, and thereafter tied to structure at the very top & bottom and then post – tensioned (tightened up) in order to pull all the treads together. Then the formwork was removed and the stairs remain self-supporting.
It was quite a bit more complicated than that, but that is the essence of the structural methodology.
This staircase involved many consultants and specialists to ensure it worked and we are proud of the outcome.

The building itself underwent complete renovation as well as a two-storey roof extension to provide co-working space for our client.
The brief was to create a focal point visible from the main en...