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Dalston Lane

A new community of residents, local makers and businesses centred around a landscaped courtyard that looks to drive biodiversity and maximise the brownfield backland site.

Project Address

160 Dalston Lane, London, E8 1NG

Client

Belchak Corin & Co.

Location

Hackney

Stage

Planning

Size

7,300 sqft commercial floorspace, 15 dwellings

The project at Dalston Lane, in Hackney, has regenerated a backland site into a design led mixed use development that replaces the existing commercial space with some small high quality units aimed at creative businesses, and creates 15 new homes all centered around a new street designed to promote community.

Set back off the main road, the site gains access through the undercroft from Dalston Lane and creates an active streetscape with the creative businesses located at ground floor and private terraces overlooking the street above. The street includes space for children’s play, plenty of planting and relaxation; encouraging growth, biodiversity, and social sustainability in the new community.

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With the internal street acting as an anchor to the site, the design establishes a strong visual and physical connection between all units and the streetscape. It pulls in space for the homes and commercial units, to connect, create and play, and cultivates the balance and opportunity for live and work spaces.

Locally sourced materials ensure a sustainable and context driven design. As a predominately brick building, part finished with zinc in the upper storey, the materials and building shape help site the building within its context, creating an architectural response with depth, texture, and personality. The new greenery spills over from the roof into the new street, promoting wellbeing and social connection.

HOUSING

MIXED USE

Both commercial and residential units have been designed to provide usable and efficient layouts, filled with natural light, that ensures all can view and enjoy the internal street, whilst benefiting from the comfort and intimacy of their own private spaces.

The creative commercial units activate the ground floor and offer opportunities for live and work.

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Demolish existing building
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Extrude site to the height
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Create courtyard space and entrance, defining new street and linking with the surrounding context
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Reduce massing adjacent to neighbouring flats and listed building and develop architectural massing approach
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Remove south facing element, and step principle elevation
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Chamfer elevation to create private areas, provide dual aspects dwellings
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Chamfer the roof to cap the building and tie massing together
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Introduce commercial units at ground floor and amenity space at upper floors to active the courtyard

Although appearing architecturally complex in terms of the shape, the approach sites the building in its context whilst maximising the use within the site, and limiting overlooking.

“We always enjoy working with GPAD and feel that they bring good design, energy, as well as a lot of experience of achieving planning approvals.”

Maddox Planning
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