In this video produced by Dezeen for Storey, representatives from the flexible workspace brand and Waugh Thistleton Architects explain how they collaborated to create a reconfigurable office block with minimal environmental impact at 6 Orsman Road in east London.
The white-panel-clad building with ribbon windows, which was designed by Waugh Thistleton Architects for Storey, takes its name from its canal-side location at 6 Orsman Road in Haggerston, east London.
It contains 3,150 square metres of office spaces over five floors and is topped by a roof garden.
The project has a hybrid steel and cross-laminated timber (CLT) structure that is designed to reduce the building's environmental impact, while also allowing it to be fully demounted and repurposed at the end of its lifetime. Waugh Thistleton Architects has designed an office block for Storey at 6 Orsman Road in East London
Storey ? a subsidiary of developer British Land that leases private, flexible workspaces to small businesses in 10 locations across London ? commissioned the east London architecture firm on the basis of its dedication to the use of timber.
"We worked with Waugh Thistleton Architects because of their experience with timber construction and sustainability more generally, which we wanted to carry through into the interiors of the project," said Storey's head of product Stewart Whiting in the video interview, which was shot at 6 Orsman Road.

"We've been building in timber at Waugh Thist...