Together with Cassion Castle Architects, London studio Pearson Lloyd has designed and retrofitted a Victorian workshop to house its own studio as well as workshops, meeting rooms and an exhibition space.
Yorkton Workshops is set on Yorkton Street in east London and comprises two distinct buildings ? a warehouse structure next to a Victorian workshop ? which the studios retrofitted to suit Pearson Lloyd's vision of its headquarters.
Top image: Yorkton Workshops is located in East London. Above: it consists of a Victorian building and a warehouse
The designers came to the decision after initially looking at constructing a new building for the site.
"Before commissioning Cassion Castle, we spent a year looking into the feasibility of building a new building on the site," Pearson Lloyd co-founder Tom Lloyd said. Pearson Lloyd and Cassion Castle Architects retrofitted the buildings
"However, we finally made the decision that we wanted to make the absolute most of the existing fabric of the building from both a sustainability point of view," Lloyd added.
"Over the long term, the embedded energy within the existing fabric far outweighs any reduced efficiency in its thermal performance where we have not been able to upgrade its performance through insulating."
The building has workshops as well as studios
When the studio acquired the 560-square-metres (6027-square-foot) Yorkton Workshops in 2017 it was "a mess," it said, but it worked to keep...