Photography Studio for Juergen Teller by 6a Architects
25/07/2017.
Shortlist Stirling Price. RIBA [LON] UK
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Included in the finalist list of the Stirling Price of 2017 is this photographic studio for Juergen Teller by 6a Architects components Stephanie Macdonald and Tom Emerson in Ladbroke Grove street, London.
Photography Studio for Juergen Teller, by 6a Architects. Photograph © Johan Dehlin
Photography Studio for Juergen Teller, by 6a Architects. Photograph © Johan Dehlin
Photography Studio for Juergen Teller, by 6a Architects. Photograph © Johan Dehlin
Photography Studio for Juergen Teller, by 6a Architects. Photograph © Johan Dehlin
Photography Studio for Juergen Teller, by 6a Architects. Photograph © Johan Dehlin
Photography Studio for Juergen Teller, by 6a Architects. Photograph © Johan Dehlin
Photography Studio for Juergen Teller, by 6a Architects. Photograph © Johan Dehlin
Photography Studio for Juergen Teller, by 6a Architects. Photograph © Johan Dehlin
Photography Studio for Juergen Teller, by 6a Architects. Photograph © Johan Dehlin
Photography Studio for Juergen Teller, by 6a Architects. Photograph © Johan Dehlin
Photography Studio for Juergen Teller, by 6a Architects. Photograph © Johan Dehlin
Photography Studio for Juergen Teller, by 6a Architects. Photograph © Johan Dehlin
Photography Studio for Juergen Teller, by 6a Architects. Photograph © Johan Dehlin
Photography Studio for Juergen Teller, by 6a Architects. Photograph © Johan Dehlin
Photography Studio for Juergen Teller, by 6a Architects. Photograph © Johan Dehlin
Photography Studio for Juergen Teller, by 6a Architects. Photograph © Johan Dehlin
Photography Studio for Juergen Teller, by 6a Architects. Photograph © Johan Dehlin
Photography Studio for Juergen Teller, by 6a Architects. Photograph © Johan Dehlin
Photography Studio for Juergen Teller, by 6a Architects. Photograph © Johan Dehlin
Site plan. Photography Studio for Juergen Teller, by 6a Architects.
Ground floor plan. Photography Studio for Juergen Teller, by 6a Architects.
First floor plan. Photography Studio for Juergen Teller, by 6a Architects.
Roof plan. Photography Studio for Juergen Teller, by 6a Architects.
Section plan. Photography Studio for Juergen Teller, by 6a Architects.
Axonomery. Photography Studio for Juergen Teller, by 6a Architects.
The study designed by 6th Architechts is actually composed by 3 buildings, a studio, offices and the file archives, designed around 2 courtyards. The curtains, in different opacities, allow to control the natural light adapting exposure for each space.
The project is presented sober, in raw concrete and different bricks to distinguish exterior and interior, objects and details are in aluminum completing the industrial character.
Included in the final selection for this year Stirling Prize of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), which has become the most prestigious architecture prize in the UK, the hidden photographic studio of Juergen Teller competes with World Conservation Center and Exhibition Center of the British Museum among others.
Project description by 6a Architects
The project comprises a series of three buildings and gardens to form a new studio, offices and archive for celebrated photographer Juergen Teller. The brief was for a light-filled, flexible, informal and welcoming set of spaces; with a natural flow and sociability.
The project expertly exploits a typically London condition. Constrained by a long and narrow industrial plot at the rougher edge of Ladbroke Grove; its only face nestles between cheap developer housing, an industrial estate and the hinterland of the Westway.
With few views possible out of the linear site, daylight is introduced through three courtyard gardens designed by Dan Pearson, and a grid of exquisitely thin concrete beams which march the length of the 60m site. These support north facing roof lights which fill the space with an extraordinary filtered light.
Board-marked poured concrete registers the rhythm of the existing brick built party walls. Two raked concrete stairs brace the studio space, the only interruptions in an open landscape, which runs the length of the site.
Detailing throughout is exquisite; from the in-situ concrete of the finely formed stairs, to the seamless brass balustrades. Large but delicately beaded timber window frames, add refinement to an otherwise minimal material palette. The building is an exemplar of fabric first and low energy design. The integration of services is expertly handled.
The project is a mature and confident statement of orderliness and precision, whilst also being relaxed and playful. It forms a refined, yet flexible workplace, which is already beginning to act as a setting to prompt and influence on the work of its client.
The building is sublime and the whole team should be highly commended.
More information
Architects
6a Architects
Awards
RIBA London Award 2017 and RIBA London Building of the Year 2017 Award - Sponsored by Marley Eternit and RIBA National Award 2017
Structural Engineers
Structural Engineers Price & Myers
M&E Engineers
Max Fordham LLP
Quantity Surveyor
Gleeds Cost Management
Landscape Architects
Dan Pearson Studio
Contractor
Harris Calnan Construction
Project Management
AECOM
Internal Area
505 m²
Client
Juergen Teller
Stephanie Macdonald, Tom Emerson. 6a architects
6a architects (Stephanie Macdonald, Tom Emerson, founded in 2001) illustrate in their projects a sophisticated experience of space, light and material, also using locations throughout their history. Their work is surprising through its sovereign sense of lightness and originality, without disowning any of its sobriety.
Stephanie Macdonald, studied Fine Arts at the Portsmouth School of Art. Following a scholarship in Japan, he studied architecture at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, the Royal College of Art and the University of North London. His experience before moving to private professional practice includes working with Tom Dixon and collaborations with Glasgow artists. He has lectured to the new creative industries in Berlin representing the ICA and the British Council.
Tom Emerson studied architecture at the University of Bath, the Royal College of Art and the University of Cambridge. He combines his professional practice with teaching at the Architectural Association in London. He has published articles on architecture, literature and art, and has taught at several architecture and art schools, including the Chelsea School of Art at the University of Cambridge, the ICA and the Royal College of Art.
Tom EMERSON
Tom Emerson founded 6a architects with Stephanie Macdonald in London in 2001. Recent projects include two contemporary art galleries in London: Raven Row in Spitalfields and the South London Gallery in Peckham. He studied at the University of Bath, the Royal College of Art in London and the University of Cambridge. Before joining the eth, he taught in Cambridge (2004–10), the Architectural Association (2000–04) and in the Department of Fine Art at Chelsea School of Art. He has been guest lecturer and critic in many schools of architecture in the uk and Europe and has published articles on architecture, art and literature.
Studio Tom Emerson is a design and research studio in the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich led by Professor Tom Emerson, focusing on re-use and bricolage in architecture and the narrative of history.
Since 2010 Studio Tom Emerson has undertaken a series of collective projects exploring the architectural potential of re-use and bricolage in full scale construction projects designed and built by the students and large scale surveys of post-industrial European cities; Forst (2011) on the German Polish border, Galway (2012) on the west coast of Ireland and Glasgow (2014).
The studio started with 96 hands in September 2010, as a two week primer for the design studio. they have continued to make these small structures alongside research into territorial re-use. For them, Re-use is not an alternative to the new. It is a new reality. Every piece of land has been occupied or inhabited. New buildings are simply another way of re-using the land.
Catalogues of Atlases of Forst and Galway were published in 2012 and including essays by Pier Vittorio Aureli, Arno Brandlhuber, Tom Emerson, Shelley McNamara, Tom de Paor, Philip Ursprung and Elia Zenghelis.
In 2016 the Glasgow Atlas was exhibited and published at Glasgow International 2016, the city’s biennale of contemporary art.
The Pavilion of Reflections for Manifesta 11 Zurich, is the largest of most complex student-led project to date.
Studio Tom Emerson is a design and research studio in the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich led by Professor Tom Emerson, focusing on re-use and bricolage in architecture and the narrative of history.
Since 2010 Studio Tom Emerson has undertaken a series of collective projects exploring the architectural potential of re-use and bricolage in full scale construction projects designed and built by the students and large scale surveys of post-industrial European cities; Forst (2011) on the German Polish border, Galway (2012) on the west coast of Ireland and Glasgow (2014).
The studio started with 96 hands in September 2010, as a two week primer for the design studio. they have continued to make these small structures alongside research into territorial re-use. For them, Re-use is not an alternative to the new. It is a new reality. Every piece of land has been occupied or inhabited. New buildings are simply another way of re-using the land.
Catalogues of Atlases of Forst and Galway were published in 2012 and including essays by Pier Vittorio Aureli, Arno Brandlhuber, Tom Emerson, Shelley McNamara, Tom de Paor, Philip Ursprung and Elia Zenghelis.
In 2016 the Glasgow Atlas was exhibited and published at Glasgow International 2016, the city’s biennale of contemporary art.
The Pavilion of Reflections for Manifesta 11 Zurich, is the largest of most complex student-led project to date.
