Alphabeta / Studio RHE

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  • QS: Quartz Project Services
  • Client: Resolution Property
  • M&E: URS
  • Project Director Lead: Richard Hywel Evans
  • Project Architect Lead: Dickon Hayward
  • Project Team: Tomos Owen, Joe Bamber, Thidaa Roberts, Tom Foster, Ben Nemeny
  • City: London
  • Country: United Kingdom
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Alphabeta / Studio RHE - Arch, Arcade
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Text description provided by the architects. The ambition was to create a modern and vibrant office space that would stand apart from its competitors by offering a compelling signature design and embracing recent changes in work culture. 

Alphabeta / Studio RHE - Shelving, Windows, Handrail, Beam
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Section
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The design explores the blurring of the boundaries of what constitutes typical office space by offering extensive work and social space outside tenancies in the form of the 750sqm atrium, shared leisure facilities and roof terraces. The atrium is envisioned to be a fully active space not merely an entrance route or waiting room. To ensure this a series of interventions at ground level have been installed to encourage a range of activities and uses. These include a 5m long kitchen table, a panelled library area, a fitted cafe and patisserie, meeting tables and soft furnishing.

Alphabeta / Studio RHE - Chair, Stairs
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Ground Floor
Alphabeta / Studio RHE - Stairs, Facade
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Cycling is seen as key part of modern urban living and encouraged through the creation of a large cycle store at lower ground level offering spaces for 250 bikes and adjacent changing rooms and lockers. Access to the cycle store is direct from street level via a new ramp that descends to the lower level. Glazed openings separate the ramp from the atrium allowing views of passing cyclists descending through the building that further animate the space.

Alphabeta / Studio RHE - Beam, Steel, Handrail
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Cycle Ramp
Alphabeta / Studio RHE - Handrail
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The design re-modelled the existing roof scape which clashed with the historic roof elements. In their place a new level of office space and roof terraces has been created. Materials have been selected to compliment the existing and large glazed openings created to frame the views over the city.

Alphabeta / Studio RHE - Windows, Facade, Cityscape, Arch
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The design embraces the complexities and eccentricities inherent in the existing building rather then trying to overcome them. Exposed masonry, varying ceiling levels and level changes in floors are celebrated rather then hidden with finishes. Existing features that were previously inaccessible such as the buildings two towers have been opened up to create idiosyncratic meeting spaces. 

Alphabeta / Studio RHE - Glass
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Product Description.The polished concrete effect atrium floor finish is Solacir by Grace and was installed by Floored Genius Ltd. The this resin finish provided the look we were after whilst also working well over the a varying depth of screed due to the uneven historical floor slabs

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Address:Worship St, London, United Kingdom

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Cite: "Alphabeta / Studio RHE" 19 Oct 2016. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/797381/alphabeta-studio-rhe> ISSN 0719-8884

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