Gasholder Works
Enfield, London
2020
Affordable homes & affordable workspace in Enfield’s Meridian Water
Gasholder Works is a mixed use building of 230 affordable homes and 2500m2 of affordable workspace in Meridian Water Enfield.
The building will help to establish Meridian Water as a thriving place to make and create, being a home to an abundance of businesses of a variety of sizes and types, whilst also providing much needed affordable homes for Enfield.
A varied skyline
The building has a variety of roof forms taken from cues of the nearby industrial buildings. Shaped to create interesting internal spaces and set back external terraces. The roof forms give the building a different impression depending on where it’s viewed from - north, south east or west.
Dual aspect appartments from single lift and stair cores
As you travel up the building it splits into four distinct mini towers. Each apartment at this level has a corner aspect, making the most out of the park side setting, with long views across the park, canal and nearby reservoirs.
Ground level plinth
The ground level is set on a plinth (housing the affordable workspace). It is delineated from the building above by an arched colonnade design. With large 3-4 storey openings to highlight the entrances into the courtyard and residential spaces above.
Workspace around a productive courtyard
The workspaces are arranged around an open landscaped courtyard which opens onto the naturalised brook and Brooks Park to create a social hub in the centre of the building. With a range of types of workspace, such as workshop spaces, offices and other creative uses.
Cross Laminated Timber frame, modular construction
The building is built using a cross laminated timber structural frame, designed on a modular grid to drive efficiencies in construction. The facade is formed from recycled aggregate concrete panels cast using the corrugated metalwork of the surrounding industrial buildings as a memory of the site’s industrial heritage.
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Reuse
~200kgCO2e/m2
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