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A Room in the Garden Film

August 29, 2020 Benjamin Allen

A Room in the Garden Film

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.

Tags plywood architecture, Vaults, CNC design architecture, garden office, garden studio, cabins, cabin architecture, working from home, digital fabrication, computer fabrication, flat pack architecture

A Room In The Garden

August 12, 2020 Benjamin Allen
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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

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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Tags plywood architecture, Vaults, CNC design architecture, garden office, garden studio, cabins, cabin architecture, working from home, digital fabrication, computer fabrication, flat pack architecture

A Room For One More

August 12, 2020 Benjamin Allen
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Project Team: Ben Allen, Marco Nicastro, Massine Yallaoui / Photography: French & Tye / Fabricator: Top Notch Joinery

A Room For One More

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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Tags plywood architecture, Vaults, arches, CNC design architecture, kids bedrooms, bunk beds, childrens rooms, off site fabrication, working from home, interior design, fold down desks

The Clearing News

June 4, 2018 Benjamin Allen
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Folkestone Artworks Collection / photographs by Philip Panting / Engineer: Format / Fire consulting: Cundall / Contractor: Hub Workshop

The Clearing News

We are pleased to announce that our Folkestone Triennial project The Clearing will now be a permanent installation as part of the Folkestone Artworks Collection and is open to the public to visit at the Quarterhouse in Folkestone. Here are some new photos of the space by photographer and friend of the studio Philip Panting.

The project was featured in Dezeen, Wallpaper magazine and the Observer / Guardian newspaper / Frieze magazine.

 

Tags Seaside Architecture, Gothic, Vaults, CNC Design Architecture, Cathedral, Plywood

A Room For Two

June 4, 2018 Benjamin Allen
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Project Lead: Omar Ghazal / Photographs by Michael Sinclair / Fabricator: Top
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A Room For Two

Our project for to create a bedroom for two siblings in London’s Barbican Estate has been featured in Dezeen, The Sunday Times, Barbican Life magazine and in the book Homework published by Thames & Hudson. It was listed as one of Dezeen’s top ten residential interiors of 2017.

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Tags plywood architecture, Vaults, arches, CNC Design Architecture, kids bedrooms, bunk beds, childrens rooms, off site fabrication

The Clearing / Folkestone Triennial 2017

September 11, 2017 Benjamin Allen
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Folkestone Triennial 2017 / Photos by Thierry Bal (first 4 images) + Paper Boat Documentaries (second 4 images) / Engineer: Format / Fire consulting: Cundall / Contractor: Hub Workshop

The Clearing / Folkestone Triennial 2017

We are excited to announce the opening of our latest project, a public artwork that also serves as the hub space for this years Folkestone Triennial and was commissioned by the Creative Foundation. The Triennial runs from 2 September to 5 November.


It has been featured in Dezeen, Wallpaper magazine, the Observer / Guardian newspaper, and Frieze magazine.

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Tags Seaside Architecture, Gothic, Vaults, CNC Design Architecture, Cathedral, Plywood

Making The Clearing

September 11, 2017 Benjamin Allen

Folkestone Triennial 2017 / Engineer: Format / Fire consulting: Cundall / Fabricator & Installer: Hub Workshop

Making The Clearing

We have made a short film of the making of our project for the Folkestone Triennial titled The Clearing.

Tags Seaside Architecture, Gothic, Vaults, CNC Design Architecture, Cathedral, Plywood

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