Portfolio : Penrose Street: Building the superstructure inside the original flank walls. The proximity of the existing walls to the elevated viaduct made any ambition to replace them entirely unfeasible. Firstly, the cost of a line stop on the active railway was prohibitively expensive for any sustained period; secondly, the latest requirements to provide at least a two-metre maintenance offset from the railway arches would have also eaten into valuable footprint. Our strategy has been to build a supporting frame from within the brick shell prior to making external amendments to the masonry. Once erected, this steel lattice allowed for the side walls to be supported whilst the end walls were remodelled around the new openings and recessed brick terraces. #dematosryan #architecture #architecturedaily #architecturelovers #reuse #mixeduse #nextgeneration #housing #sustainability #newlondonarchitecture #transformation #modernarchitecture
