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We worked with filmmaker Ben Tynegate on this film showing the assembly and use of our A Room in the Garden project. We are currently taking orders for our next generation of Garden Studios - please get in touch if you are interested and we will send you more details.
Project team: Ben Allen, Omar Ghazal, Marco Nicastro, Arthur Wong Massine Yallaoui / Photography + film: Ben Tynegate / Structural Engineer: Format CNC cutting: Hub Workshop / Installation: Sullivan & Co / Landscape Design: Daniel Bell Landskap
A Room in the Garden is part garden folly, part “other space”. It is intended to relieve the congestion of the urban home and provide a space for family members to work, play, read, sleep or to enjoy a moment of peace and quiet. Packed with innovation, it is designed as both product and building. It is intended to be simple enough for self-build assembly and reassembly, coming as a flat pack kit of parts, fully fabricated on a CNC machine. It is ultra low VOC both in assembly and use and embraces the principals of circular design in that it can be fully demounted and re- erected. The project has been featured in The Observer, Dezeen, The Sunday Times, The Architect’s Journal, Detail, Dwell, Baunetz, decorpunk magazine, The Sunday Telegraph and the Times, Dezeen: 12 Garden Offices, Dezeen: 8 Home Offices . The project was also shortlisted in the Architect’s Journal Small Project Awards and the Offsite Awards.
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Project Team: Ben Allen, Marco Nicastro, Massine Yallaoui / Photography: French & Tye / Fabricator: Top Notch Joinery
Designed for a flat in London’s Barbican Estate, the brief was to find space for a children’s bedroom within the existing layout of a one bedroom apartment, a workspace to enable working from home as well as to provide additional storage space. The client was keen that the intervention would relate to the architecture of the Barbican and provide a high degree of flexibility to allow the growing family to continue living in their much loved but modest sized flat. The solution was to convert the existing dining area into a second bedroom by inserting a single visually unified architectural element that served as: wall, door, living room storage unit, drop down desk, home office storage, bed, child’s desk and seating area. The project has been featured in Dezeen, Clever / Architecural Digest, Baunetz, decorpunk.
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