Ely Court, 44 dwelling residential by Alison Brooks Architects
15/02/2017.
[London] UK
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Ely Court by Alison Brooks Architects is a project of hight-quality collective housing, consisting of four types of buildings that using traditional construction techniques, simple colors and durable materials, provide bright and spacious units.
Chichester Road looking East. Ely Court, 44 dwelling residential within the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Masterplan by Alison Brooks Architects. Photograph © Paul Riddle
End of Terrace viewed from Chichester Road. Ely Court, 44 dwelling residential within the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Masterplan by Alison Brooks Architects. Photograph © Paul Riddle
Street view of terrace block entrance. Ely Court, 44 dwelling residential within the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Masterplan by Alison Brooks Architects. Photograph © Paul Riddle
End of Terrace viewed from Courtyard. Ely Court, 44 dwelling residential within the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Masterplan by Alison Brooks Architects. Photograph © Paul Riddle
Ely Court, 44 dwelling residential within the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Masterplan by Alison Brooks Architects. Photograph © Paul Riddle
End of Terrace viewed from Courtyard. Ely Court, 44 dwelling residential within the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Masterplan by Alison Brooks Architects. Photograph © Paul Riddle
Detail. Terrace viewed from Chichester Road. Ely Court, 44 dwelling residential within the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Masterplan by Alison Brooks Architects. Photograph © Paul Riddle
Ely Court, 44 dwelling residential within the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Masterplan by Alison Brooks Architects. Photograph © Paul Riddle
Terrace viewed from Chichester Road. Ely Court, 44 dwelling residential within the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Masterplan by Alison Brooks Architects. Photograph © Paul Riddle
Terrace viewed from Chichester Road. Ely Court, 44 dwelling residential within the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Masterplan by Alison Brooks Architects. Photograph © Paul Riddle
Ely Court, 44 dwelling residential within the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Masterplan by Alison Brooks Architects. Photograph © Paul Riddle
Ely Court, 44 dwelling residential within the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Masterplan by Alison Brooks Architects. Photograph © Paul Riddle
Ely Court, 44 dwelling residential within the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Masterplan by Alison Brooks Architects. Photograph © Paul Riddle
Ely Court, 44 dwelling residential within the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Masterplan by Alison Brooks Architects. Photograph © Paul Riddle
Ely Court, 44 dwelling residential within the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Masterplan by Alison Brooks Architects. Photograph © Paul Riddle
Ely Court, 44 dwelling residential within the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Masterplan by Alison Brooks Architects. Photograph © Paul Riddle
Terrace viewed from Chichester Road. Ely Court, 44 dwelling residential within the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Masterplan by Alison Brooks Architects. Photograph © Paul Riddle
Terrace viewed from Chichester Road. Ely Court, 44 dwelling residential within the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Masterplan by Alison Brooks Architects. Photograph © Paul Riddle
Chichester Road looking East. Ely Court, 44 dwelling residential within the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Masterplan by Alison Brooks Architects. Photograph © Paul Riddle
Ely Court, 44 dwelling residential within the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Masterplan by Alison Brooks Architects. Photograph © Paul Riddle
Ely Court, 44 dwelling residential within the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Masterplan by Alison Brooks Architects. Photograph © Paul Riddle
Site plan, master plan. South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Projects. Ely Court, 44 dwelling residential within the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Masterplan by Alison Brooks Architects
Urban context. Ely Court, 44 dwelling residential within the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Masterplan by Alison Brooks Architects
Access. Ely Court, 44 dwelling residential within the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Masterplan by Alison Brooks Architects
Public and private spaces, axonometric view. Ely Court, 44 dwelling residential within the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Masterplan by Alison Brooks Architects
Upper floor plans of blocks. Ely Court, 44 dwelling residential within the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Masterplan by Alison Brooks Architects
Typologies of apartments. Ely Court, 44 dwelling residential within the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Masterplan by Alison Brooks Architects
Elevations. Ely Court, 44 dwelling residential within the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Masterplan by Alison Brooks Architects
Sections and façcades details. Ely Court, 44 dwelling residential within the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Masterplan by Alison Brooks Architects
Typologies of apartments. Ely Court, 44 dwelling residential within the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Masterplan by Alison Brooks Architects
Sections blocks. Ely Court, 44 dwelling residential within the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Masterplan by Alison Brooks Architects
Elevations. Ely Court, 44 dwelling residential within the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Masterplan by Alison Brooks Architects
Private Parks. Ely Court, 44 dwelling residential within the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Masterplan by Alison Brooks Architects
Ely Court, 44 dwelling residential within the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Masterplan by Alison Brooks Architects
Ely Court by Alison Brooks Architects is a 44 dwelling residential development within the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Masterplan in the London Borough of Brent. Ely Court forms part of Phase 1 of the Regeneration Programme. The scheme delivers a mixture of single and double storey dwellings with 40% made available to existing South Kilburn Estate social tenants.
Description project by Alison Brooks Architects
ABA’s proposal reinstates the block and street pattern that characterised this archetypal 19th century London ‘suburb’ before its post-war redevelopment. A new inner block mews draws pedestrians and vehicles into what was previously an isolated and under-used ‘green space’ between existing slab blocks and acts as a spine connecting the two new developments. Ely Court was conceived as four building types, each of a different scale and organisation responding to its specific locale. The four storey Terrace and the Flatiron Building each offer strong new street frontages to Chichester Road. The Terrace, Mews and Flatiron Blocks frame a new public garden square in front of Canterbury Court. This open space was formerly underused and now provides park space, framed by four generations of architecture. The Mews shares its surface, with new street trees.
The intention of the regeneration is to re-integrate the Estate into the wider South Kilburn neighbourhood, create a sense of place, by replacing existing poor quality, single tenure 1960s building stock, with high quality, mixed tenure, developments demonstrating architectural excellence and diverse communities.
The four building types have all been designed to provide exceptionally high quality, bright and spacious units. Areas generally exceed space standards. The floor to ceiling height is exceptionally generous at 2.6m throughout the scheme and all windows are full floor to ceiling height. The fenestration consists mainly French doors, with their accompanying sense of light, space and quality.
The buildings act as an interpretation of the 19th C mansion blocks of neighbouring Maida Vale, but with 2 storey maisonettes on the ground floor. The maisonettes are typically interspersed with communal entrances that provide access to apartments above; via double height entrances with perforated brick screens. The facades are animated with front porticoes and recessed balconies, resulting in highly articulated, rhythmic facades.
The scheme aimed to be delivered within traditional construction techniques and looks to make best use of a simple material palette which is durable and low maintenance, but that also communicate long term values for generations to come. The structural frame is made of pre-fabricated hollowcore slabs supported by blockwork. The frame is externally finished with a Dutch brick laid in a running bond. Composite windows have been used throughout allowing for a warmer internal finish in natural timber. Fenestration is generally double leaf and full height which open in the form of a Juliette balconies. Metalwork is found in the form of painted balustrades to all balconies and railings at ground floor. The 2 storey porticoes, are framed in steel and clad with darker coloured aluminium, in contrast to the light sandy brickwork.
The total cost of this project was £13.75m. The income from the sale of the private sale homes has been used to cross-subsidise the affordable housing. Catalyst Housing Group purchased the scheme from the Brent Council in 2012, the land payment has helped support the Council in funding the buyouts and planning costs of the next phase of this regeneration.
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Architect
Alison Brooks (1962 United Kingdom) - Alison Brooks Architects
Collaborators
Nelson Carvalho, Chris Smaill, Sergey Kurdyashev, Ceri Edmunds (architects); Malcolm Hester, Phil Trueman, Ian Beaumont (construction company); Elena Brodetsky (construction manager).
Client
Brent Council
Program
Collective housing
Location
London, United Kingdom
Year
2015 (Year began 2012).
Area
Total area: 6.509; Usable floor area: 4.643
Cost
2.057€/m²
Alison Brooks Architects
Alison Brooks Architects. Founded in 1996, Alison Brooks Architects has developed an international reputation for design excellence in projects ranging from urban regeneration and public buildings for the arts, to higher education and housing. ABA’s architecture is informed by their intensive research into the cultural, social and environmental contexts of each project. This approach enables the practice to develop authentic, responsive solutions for their buildings and urban schemes, each with a distinct identity.
Known for their sculptural approach to form and extraordinary attention to detail, Alison Brooks Architects is the only UK practice to have won the RIBA’s three most prestigious awards for architecture – the Stirling Prize, Manser Medal and Stephen Lawrence Prize.
ABA’s numerous national and international awards include the 2012 Architect of the Year and Housing Architect of the Year. ABA is designing major projects across the UK including the new Cohen Quadrangle at Oxford University, due to open in October 2016. ABA has recently received a RIBA Award for their work in the South Kilburn Estate, Ely Court. The practice will be exhibiting their research examining 20th century social housing and contemporary urban stewardship at the 2016 Venice Biennale.
Known for their sculptural approach to form and extraordinary attention to detail, Alison Brooks Architects is the only UK practice to have won the RIBA’s three most prestigious awards for architecture – the Stirling Prize, Manser Medal and Stephen Lawrence Prize.
ABA’s numerous national and international awards include the 2012 Architect of the Year and Housing Architect of the Year. ABA is designing major projects across the UK including the new Cohen Quadrangle at Oxford University, due to open in October 2016. ABA has recently received a RIBA Award for their work in the South Kilburn Estate, Ely Court. The practice will be exhibiting their research examining 20th century social housing and contemporary urban stewardship at the 2016 Venice Biennale.
