https://friendandcompany.co.uk friendandcompany Wed, 27 Feb 2019 17:07:10 +0000 https://friendandcompany.co.uk en https://friendandcompany.co.uk/POP-UP-UTE Tue, 26 Feb 2019 17:52:38 +0000 friendandcompany https://friendandcompany.co.uk/POP-UP-UTE <img width="2500" height="1664" width_o="2500" height_o="1664" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4ffc21d5c52003824401e78a9fd1ef60f94dc6da83ad933260ff2bbdf6713c08/Pop-Up-Ute---01.jpg" data-mid="58977966" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4ffc21d5c52003824401e78a9fd1ef60f94dc6da83ad933260ff2bbdf6713c08/Pop-Up-Ute---01.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/131e5663fa360087b21b2d3b95b3c22e45d28ca060b7294bb9a9dbfa3148580f/Pop-Up-Ute---02.jpeg" data-mid="58979944" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/131e5663fa360087b21b2d3b95b3c22e45d28ca060b7294bb9a9dbfa3148580f/Pop-Up-Ute---02.jpeg" /> <img width="2500" height="3156" width_o="2500" height_o="3156" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0f4b294b11038a30def28df133406e38b4f2deb23ced496f4165896279b83d85/Pop-Up-Ute---03.jpg" data-mid="58979967" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0f4b294b11038a30def28df133406e38b4f2deb23ced496f4165896279b83d85/Pop-Up-Ute---03.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1664" width_o="2500" height_o="1664" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ccecca9f47151aa13fcea77ff144cb3ecdcaee015bb2195ddb85750f2725224a/Pop-Up-Ute---04.jpg" data-mid="58980706" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ccecca9f47151aa13fcea77ff144cb3ecdcaee015bb2195ddb85750f2725224a/Pop-Up-Ute---04.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/41a2f69880b83c90abcd342672529a9670f5ee61e515dfe0239b800e9d73916b/Pop-Up-Ute---05.jpeg" data-mid="58979978" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/41a2f69880b83c90abcd342672529a9670f5ee61e515dfe0239b800e9d73916b/Pop-Up-Ute---05.jpeg" /> <img width="2500" height="1665" width_o="2500" height_o="1665" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/821b1be52d5da9cbe55773d1eb6dee03d3ede319dd09af5096327f21cb9eb332/Pop-Up-Ute---06.jpeg" data-mid="58979980" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/821b1be52d5da9cbe55773d1eb6dee03d3ede319dd09af5096327f21cb9eb332/Pop-Up-Ute---06.jpeg" /> POP-UP UTE LIGHTWEIGHT EXTENSION Winner of the New London Architecture Don’t Move Improve 2018 Awards Special Prize for Most Innovative Project. A new lightweight two storey roof extension and terraces tripling the size of the existing artist studio and brought clarity to the interior by separating living and studio spaces, across two floors to form a back-drop for fashion / portrait photography. Inspired by self-builder client, photographer Jonathan Root’s, interest in custom finishes of mid-century modern furniture and automobiles, the Pop-Up Ute* drew on practice research into designs for manufactured assembly (DfMA) to make a custom-affordable lightweight single storey roof extension. This modest reuse of an existing brownfield industrial heritage site, dating from 1860, on the Chappell’s Piano factory attempts to evoke the host DNA deploying contemporary industrial materials with target utilitarian precision, similar to how the original piano factory was extended and added to. Made from a kit of lightweight parts to speed up the assembly and reduce construction waste the project was a testbed for some of the latest circular economy techniques including manufactured assembly processes encouraged by the London Mayor in recent initiatives to make additions to the built environment quicker and more affordable through self-build kit assembly and off-site manufacturing. Owing to the uncertain status of the existing foundations, the new addition was designed to balance the overall weight of the host building, requiring a concept of subtracting the heavier historic construction elements to free up and extend with ultra-lightweight additions. Existing heavy brick walls were demolished and replaced with lightweight super-insulated panelised timber walls clad in lighter brick slips to retain heritage appearance of the brick host. Super insulative frosted polycarbonate kit assembly walling wraps the light filled living room, overclad in analok bronze-coloured aluminium rain baffles that form a privacy screen and balustrade to a new stair and roof terrace. The custom kit build components were scaled to fit the site allowing the client to self-build with ease, reducing costs, construction waste and minimising the carbon footprint, super green qualities that contributed to it winning the most innovative house at the Don’t Move Improve Awards in 2018. Final phase of work, completed in 2022 was shortlist and finalist in both the Camden Design Awards and the AJ Architecture Awards 2023. *A ute – an abbreviation for "utility". CLIENTJohnathan Root COMPLETEDPhased construction completed 2022 PHOTOS Oscar Kornyei Agnese SanvitoAWARDSArchitects’ Journal Awards 2023 - Shortlist Camden Design Awards 2022 - Shortlist Don’t Move, Improve! 2018 - Winner Most InnovativeDezeen Awards Architecture Longlist 2018 PRESSDezeenThe Modern House Evening Standard - Homes&amp;Property https://friendandcompany.co.uk/V-A-TILE Tue, 26 Feb 2019 17:12:29 +0000 friendandcompany https://friendandcompany.co.uk/V-A-TILE <img width="2500" height="2500" width_o="2500" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1433c311a27d371dcedc414d8fdc9305c9fcfe2bc76519a16b2314a67707f4b7/V-A-Tile-01.jpg" data-mid="59073091" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1433c311a27d371dcedc414d8fdc9305c9fcfe2bc76519a16b2314a67707f4b7/V-A-Tile-01.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1875" width_o="2500" height_o="1875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/20780450208b9249818a0ad6c9c9289d06e120a13de600c01bb269c0d7c90dc5/V-A-Tile-02.jpeg" data-mid="59073109" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/20780450208b9249818a0ad6c9c9289d06e120a13de600c01bb269c0d7c90dc5/V-A-Tile-02.jpeg" /> V&amp;A tile 3D-PRINTED CERAMICS Designed through extensive material investigations we combine craft techniques with an experimental sensibility to develop new architectural materials and finishes. We believe in the creative potential of frugal manufacturing and circular reuse techniques that introduce chance and randomness to the production line so that no two products are ever the same. In the case of the 3D-Printed V&amp;A Tile, our unique ceramic tiles were printed with a robotic arm to ensure the pattern was continuous across more than one ceramic tile to make eight distinctive ceramic carpets that were playful crafted additions to our V&amp;A Main Shop. These tiles are part of research in three-dimensional printed clay the origin of which lies in medieval slipware, creating a ‘piped’ rather than layered appearance. By fitting the robotic arm with a dispenser that extrudes clay, lines of the material can be deposited one on top of the other. As this is done while the clay is still wet, the lines join together as they dry. Vessels, teapots and floor tiles were also made by the using this technique were sold in the&nbsp; V&amp;A museum shop when it re-opened in May 2017. The tiles are produced digitally, but glazed in the traditional way. Crackled glaze was chosen to further accentuate the differences in these repeated objects. Although the digital script is the same each time. It can only make something approximately the same but not identical. With a new process like this, the visual language of the outcome depends on how it is made. A layered appearance is particular to the 3D-Printing process and the V&amp;A tile celebrates the manufacturing technology and robotic craft a play between digital and manual processes. &nbsp; The 3d printed V&amp;A Tile and Ceramic Carpet is recognised as the world’s first 3D-Printed piped tile and was exhibited at ‘FastCraft’ (8 May 2019 – 10 May 2019) in Camberwell College of Art, ’Digital Manual’ at Arram Gallery (16 May 2019 – 22 June 2019) and&nbsp; ‘Hand Held to Super Scale: Building with ceramics’ (19 September 2019 – 31 January 2020) at The Building Centre. The 3D-Printed V&amp;A Tiles come from our ability to hack and hone existing buildings and retrofit first by hot rodding architecture through applying custom shop expertise in making. This has led to new materials and products that have come out of the architecture such as the robotic crafted 3D-Piped ceramic tile and cork bench for the V&amp;A, water-jet cut structural glass fins engineered for 21st Century Span House, Corona and the V&amp;A Shop, or the recycled plastic secondary glazing in the super green PopUpUte. Our approach deploys latest research to weave a seamless journey of discovery between the old and the new, a process that often reveals the origin of the host. These voyages of discovery when repeated, such as the three Span Development Houses we have adapted for the 21st Century generate a specialism and expertise in rehabilitating mid-century modernist houses uniting total architecture with the arts &amp; crafts by using robotic craft to digitally scan and pre-fabricate bespoke alterations that are frugally manufactured, ethical, sustainable and driven by an ambition to reduce whole life carbon in the building industry. CLIENT Victoria and Albert Museum, London PROJECT YEAR2018 COLLABORATIONGrymsdyke Farm PHOTOS Ed Reeve https://friendandcompany.co.uk/V-A-MAIN-SHOP Wed, 27 Feb 2019 17:07:10 +0000 friendandcompany https://friendandcompany.co.uk/V-A-MAIN-SHOP <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/36edd59d2382ac6f60f3c1e3290355d3d705049b81c0be5ccd62448af262333e/V-A-Shop-01.jpg" data-mid="59073360" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/36edd59d2382ac6f60f3c1e3290355d3d705049b81c0be5ccd62448af262333e/V-A-Shop-01.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0a9768a69f0d07a035902aed35f2713bba4a9088d80507188b3d6805efa06e1d/V-A-Shop-02.jpg" data-mid="59073361" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0a9768a69f0d07a035902aed35f2713bba4a9088d80507188b3d6805efa06e1d/V-A-Shop-02.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3dd3e7d3fcd959cbd67adcd1007f3860c9511dec5e233c97d1d6949180baefec/V-A-Shop-03.jpg" data-mid="59073362" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3dd3e7d3fcd959cbd67adcd1007f3860c9511dec5e233c97d1d6949180baefec/V-A-Shop-03.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1666" width_o="2500" height_o="1666" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c441c0673ca75c0b6279bbef4416661b4e31fbdc96e73e695f4f4366e637590a/V-A-Shop-04.jpg" data-mid="59073363" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c441c0673ca75c0b6279bbef4416661b4e31fbdc96e73e695f4f4366e637590a/V-A-Shop-04.jpg" /> V&amp;A MUSEUM MAIN SHOPROBOTIC CRAFT REMODEL The shop design was inspired by our fascination with digital craft processes and is now as much a showcase of latest building technologies as it is a new space to display new designers work and additions to the museum shop collection.&nbsp; Situated at the heart of the museum, the site is crucial in defining the V&amp;A experience. The V&amp;A archives at Blythe House revealed that the first V&amp;A shop, as early as 1863, was a showcase for new crafts and a place for visitors to connect with the museum catalogues. This remodel, born of our ability to finding connections between museum and retail narratives, created a multi-functional space in tune with the museum, capable of hosting diverse events, as well as classic retail areas responding to an ever more diverse and growing audiences. Spatially the new shop substantially increases displayable wall space through a concept of lanes and street facades that grew from a close examination of previously hidden steel structures. A suspended ceiling, installed in the 1970s, was removed to increase height and reveal the historic development of the museum to reveal new narratives connecting the shop merchandising to the museum collections. This structure is echoed with bespoke 10mm mild steel shelving ‘weldments’ that extended the life-span as well as tested future sustainable material choices the museum could adopt in both future exhibition and retail spaces. The new Pocket Workshop demonstration space for craft will have a quarterly materials focus, starting with ceramics. A new Jewellery Pavilion shows the collections to their best advantage. Visitors connect with the museum catalogue through these innovative spaces that also recall the material taxonomy of the first V&amp;A shop. It was integral to the museum, selling catalogues and, in the 1860s, lantern slides to allow people to study the exhibits at home. Both pavilions make use of latest robotic craft and are made from digitally fabricated components that have been beautifully hand-finished. This bespoke 21st Century applied art uses new materials and tailored finishes that are usually only achieved in workshops, and levels of precision normally only found in latest manufacturing technologies. The Jewellery Pavilion is formed of four mild steel ‘weldments' weighing half a ton each. They have been laser-cut to a precise pattern, hand-welded, and finished in a zinc spray that is then patinated. The Pocket Workshop displays a glass and timber structure in which timber shelves are stacked and slotted into water-jet cut structural glass fins so they appear to float on ‘structural air’. This glass and timber structure is then clad in glass shingles held in place with timber stakes making a ‘shop window’ demonstrator space in which the stories behind the merchandise can be extended and told, offering a gateway into the museum collection and inspire a greater sense of inquiry.&nbsp; Throughout the design development of the new main shop, the practice has instigated partnerships with craftspeople and worked with the V&amp;A team resulting in exceptional collaborations, such as ︎&nbsp;the 3D-printed ceramic tile&nbsp;that has been created for segments of the floor designed with Guan Lee of Grymsdyke Farm.CLIENTVictoria and Albert Museum, London PROJECT YEAR2018 COLLABORATIONGrymsdyke Farm Millimetre PHOTOSEd Reeve AWARDS Dezeen Awards 2018 - Shortlisted AJ Retrofit Awards 2018 - Shortlisted Blueprint Magazine Awards 2017 - Highly Commended PRESS Dezeen Wallpaper AJ https://friendandcompany.co.uk/21ST-CENTURY-SPAN Wed, 27 Feb 2019 15:26:13 +0000 friendandcompany https://friendandcompany.co.uk/21ST-CENTURY-SPAN <img width="2240" height="2835" width_o="2240" height_o="2835" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aa0fbadb377a76d7b9b383d4f05bde0767c4baa4da6664c26ca6184d0e5c382e/21st-Century-Span---01.jpg" data-mid="59074507" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aa0fbadb377a76d7b9b383d4f05bde0767c4baa4da6664c26ca6184d0e5c382e/21st-Century-Span---01.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/47ffcaf977b3a31f7cf3de5207154c58b63c5f74f18a09a70c7711b137953cf9/21st-Century-Span---02.jpg" data-mid="59074530" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/47ffcaf977b3a31f7cf3de5207154c58b63c5f74f18a09a70c7711b137953cf9/21st-Century-Span---02.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0fde6a9b598110f492c5121a74b30b214258bbeaa4d0d0e750da472999fa5f5d/21st-Century-Span---03.jpg" data-mid="59075471" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0fde6a9b598110f492c5121a74b30b214258bbeaa4d0d0e750da472999fa5f5d/21st-Century-Span---03.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="3750" width_o="2500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/98240d92481f54659cf87d78d1386177be26ae293b0cd2358202cb497362fc80/21st-Century-Span---04.jpeg" data-mid="59075485" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/98240d92481f54659cf87d78d1386177be26ae293b0cd2358202cb497362fc80/21st-Century-Span---04.jpeg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c1cf8519cde0a3b01371b21950ae833b549e5819948bad096c02fe97abaaae0d/21st-Century-Span---05.jpeg" data-mid="59075489" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c1cf8519cde0a3b01371b21950ae833b549e5819948bad096c02fe97abaaae0d/21st-Century-Span---05.jpeg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/52f79d12686e1a2b756eeb925d62514df2b6ed33fec8c8567edbfaae5de55b04/21st-Century-Span---06.jpeg" data-mid="59075541" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/52f79d12686e1a2b756eeb925d62514df2b6ed33fec8c8567edbfaae5de55b04/21st-Century-Span---06.jpeg" /> <img width="2204" height="2835" width_o="2204" height_o="2835" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e2d976b9ca9e746f43ef9c733f37a452ef21f37a3ba9b8f0fb2fc4c034264957/21st-Century-Span---07.jpg" data-mid="59075580" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e2d976b9ca9e746f43ef9c733f37a452ef21f37a3ba9b8f0fb2fc4c034264957/21st-Century-Span---07.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/541ad7eb9e6fad26886b40453b0eac50285a6dfa22a664a1204acf2ff1b1d590/21st-Century-Span---model---3.jpg" data-mid="60223701" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/541ad7eb9e6fad26886b40453b0eac50285a6dfa22a664a1204acf2ff1b1d590/21st-Century-Span---model---3.jpg" /> 21ST CENTURY SPANTERRACED HOUSE REFIT Corner Green estate in Blackheath, was designed by Eric Lyons and Geoffrey Townsend and built by Span Developments in 1959. In the 1950s Span houses with communal resident associations set new standards in design, layout and landscaping. Friend and Company’s brief was to completely refit a terraced house, reinventing Span for the 21st century. Developed with ARUP Materials Consulting, the design is based on a simple component concept: everything vertical is glass and everything horizontal is wood. Floors, kitchen worktop, bathroom vanity, stair treads and bookshelves are all made from structural timber planks supplied by the Danish company Dinesen. The design breaks new ground in domestic interior design by using just two structural materials: vertical elements are glass and horizontal elements are wood. The structure does not use mechanical fixings and installation is quicker than a typical Ikea flat-pack. The two materials form a simple stacking component system alternating between glass and wooden planks. The exceptions to this are the single piece glass stringers of each stair flight. Here slots were water jet cut into the glass ready to receive the solid timber stair treads. These are fitted with a snap-fit detail more commonly associated with small-scale product design. This assembly not only characterises the new interior, all setting out is driven by it, including a 3.2m x 2m frameless roof-light filling the new stairwell. The concept, to describe the simplest possible house, made from just two materials was a different way of thinking about how to make an interior, almost treating the structure as if it were furniture. The final look is stripped-down modernism in tune with the original aspirations of the Span developments, and creates an economic utilitarian design where the quality of the finished materials can be fully appreciated in a 21st Century Span House. CLIENT Private COMPLETED 2009 PHOTOS Agnese Sanvito ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS ARUP https://friendandcompany.co.uk/NIRVANA-A-BIOPHILIC-SANCTUARY Wed, 27 Feb 2019 14:17:38 +0000 friendandcompany https://friendandcompany.co.uk/NIRVANA-A-BIOPHILIC-SANCTUARY <img width="2500" height="1371" width_o="2500" height_o="1371" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/df50df84dbd88bfddac56ee38d8cb7eade40efad42a0875d778ad3306e3aa6bf/Nirvana---Main-Image---BW.jpg" data-mid="59075735" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/df50df84dbd88bfddac56ee38d8cb7eade40efad42a0875d778ad3306e3aa6bf/Nirvana---Main-Image---BW.jpg" /> NIRVANA - A BIOPHILIC SANCTUARYCOMPETITION FINALIST Future Retail Destinations Competition was an open competition organised by the Architectural Journal in partnership with the Crown Estate in order to reimagine out-of-town shopping destinations for year 2030. The competition was staged into phases. Initially the entrants were asked to submit a single panel showing their innovative retail destination of approximately 20’000 square meters. In second phase the twelve shortlisted teams had to present their concept design to a panel of judges including Sam Jacob of Sam Jacob Studio, Gensler’s retail expert Lara Marrero and AJ’s Will Hurst. The selected six winners were invited to a site visit to one of the Crown Estate’s retail parks. In the last stage the initial concept had to be applied to the encountered situation. The competition ended with a day-long event during which all teams presented their proposals to judges and other winners. [Fragment of the competition entry] In 2030 we see the future of retail as being dominated by online sales. A visit to the shops will become an experience more akin to visiting a museum where one feels satisfied and part of a shared cultural event, similar to the way current museum shops operate such as the V&amp;A Shop that annually attracts 16 million visitors. In order to create the cultural magnet the future of retail as a destination and a place to shop will transform into a hybrid environment that is universally accessible and in which all citizens are members. A place in which experimental technologies can be tested, where the latest prototypical innovation and work in progress (WiP) products are demonstrated and where individual customisations and making can be witnessed being made connecting customers, or the citizens of Nirvana with a greater sense of ownership and vested interest. The Nirvana is more than a retail park, existing as a framework of shared and evolving ideas, values and practices that enables those from all walks of life to flourish as individuals and in communities irrespective of when and where they live and what they do. CLIENT Crown Estate PROJECT YEAR 2018 PRESSThe Architects' Journal 1The Architects' Journal 2 Crown Estate https://friendandcompany.co.uk/HELIX-CENTRE Wed, 27 Feb 2019 13:50:48 +0000 friendandcompany https://friendandcompany.co.uk/HELIX-CENTRE <img width="2339" height="3508" width_o="2339" height_o="3508" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66bce2a4ca74d7be72c99a3b5de19cb93e7e8b3efe2e29e59c4f73b65818a4ea/Helix-Centre---01.jpg" data-mid="59075950" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/66bce2a4ca74d7be72c99a3b5de19cb93e7e8b3efe2e29e59c4f73b65818a4ea/Helix-Centre---01.jpg" /> <img width="2480" height="1654" width_o="2480" height_o="1654" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/63824fd284c2614c73c385f9677d41e65084ce66a40d0a3681505aac5371d359/Helix-Centre---02.jpg" data-mid="59076090" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/63824fd284c2614c73c385f9677d41e65084ce66a40d0a3681505aac5371d359/Helix-Centre---02.jpg" /> <img width="2339" height="3508" width_o="2339" height_o="3508" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a8135ad0ffd956c627e294b1dd98e67ac8bf5f1f8e5b499c9680f38e4eea243e/Helix-Centre---03.jpg" data-mid="59076169" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a8135ad0ffd956c627e294b1dd98e67ac8bf5f1f8e5b499c9680f38e4eea243e/Helix-Centre---03.jpg" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; HELIX CENTREPOP-UP The Healthcare Innovation Exchange (HELIX) Centre is a new building with a radical concept; to explore how designers might work together with clinical practitioners in an acute general hospital to improve healthcare. A new idea, for instance, might push the boundaries of innovative technology, or save costs, or it could solve everyday healthcare problems that are often overlooked. The HELIX is a small but innovative glass and timber cube, slotted into a pedestrian thoroughfare between two towering hospital buildings, part of St Mary’s Hospital, London. Staff and patients at the hospital are welcome to walk into the HELIX Centre where they have the opportunity to talk to a team of designers about their ideas. Together they can respond quickly to complex healthcare issues, turning ideas into prototype products, processes and services. The HELIX Centre is the result of a collaboration between Imperial College London, Health Trust’s St Mary’s Hospital and the Royal College of Art (RCA) School of Architecture. The philosophy behind is simple: real medical breakthroughs occur when people-centred design and scientific rigour collide. The RCA contributes creativity and user-centred design expertise and Imperial College London contributes clinical, engineering and scientific know-how. The role of the RCA School of Architecture was fundamental. The studio was designed by the winners of an invited design competition at the RCA School of Architecture, students Ralf Alwani, Joanna Hyland and Matthew Volsen,. The design students were led by Senior Tutor, and Head of Live Projects, Adrian Friend and supported by architects Jamie Fobert and Fernando Rihl, with specialist design team members including structural engineer AKT II, DP9, Gardiner and Theobald, Max Fordham. To rationalise the structure and method of construction the team worked closely with Millimetre, a contractor with a timber workshop with CNC facilities, specialising in combining timber, glass and metal for contemporary interior projects. The HELIX Centre building is a prototype, a simple cube-shaped pavilion which aims to reflect the innovative principles of the HELIX initiative. Timber is used to serve as structure, architecture, interior and furniture. Adrian Friend explains; 'In the HELIX Centre project we tested the application of digital manufacture as a design tool to raise the quality of the architecture and make an end product that epitomises beauty and exudes precision yet is affordable and quick to construct&nbsp;–&nbsp;an approach that mimics how the HELIX Centre will optimise healthcare innovation.'&nbsp; The HELIX pavilion is clad with a series of 6mm toughened glass panels, which overlap like roofing tiles, supported by nib-like engineered oak glazing bars. The façade is naturally ventilated by means of oak-cased ‘pockets’. At lower levels the glazing is obscured with a fritted screen print to give privacy while offering enticing glimpses of the timber structure inside. The pavilion is lined with an inner wall of 8mm toughened glass panels, which slot into a groove at the base and are clamped into place by the oak glazing bars. At the eaves a row of clear toughened glass panels line the roof perimeter edge to align with the insulated timber roof, a stressed ply skin waterproofed with a single ply membrane. The ceiling is of birch-faced ply with a white oil finish. Likewise the floor is a stressed ply skin with a birch-faced ply finish. On entering the HELIX, the warmth and tactile qualities of the timber structure, interior and furnishing are immediately clear. The form of the structure is a series of deep interlocking laminated veneer lumber (LVL) frames, which also act as bookcases, shelves and internal finish. Laminated veneer lumber - with the trade name Kerto-S - was the chosen for its stability to act as a lightweight structure while retaining all the qualities of exposed timber. The central tables were purpose made of WISA-Birch plywood. Floor mounted convection heaters provide low level heating during cooler months. CLIENTImperial College London PROJECT YEAR 2015 COLLABORATION Millimetre RCA Architecture Students STRUCTURAL ENGINEER AKTII ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN Max Fordham COST CONTROL Gardiner &amp; Theobald LLP WOOD SUPPLIER Sydenhams Ltd, Lathams MAIN CONTRACTOR/BUILDER: Millimetre PHOTOS Marco Godoy AWARDSWood Awards 2015 Small Project - Highly Commended N.I.C.E Award 2015 - Winner https://friendandcompany.co.uk/FISH-HOUSE Wed, 27 Feb 2019 13:10:50 +0000 friendandcompany https://friendandcompany.co.uk/FISH-HOUSE <img width="3840" height="5760" width_o="3840" height_o="5760" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d3a7bc71e6aac6d9d03616e210347b65ce89082b0156266c3c8d9a6ad129cd53/Whitchurch-Barn_22.JPG" data-mid="212087220" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d3a7bc71e6aac6d9d03616e210347b65ce89082b0156266c3c8d9a6ad129cd53/Whitchurch-Barn_22.JPG" /> <img width="3385" height="2690" width_o="3385" height_o="2690" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a2811a4fb48d79d80072c7a70c79a9b408407c387bd9b548100707f84ec87f42/P4070057AF.JPG" data-mid="214417430" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a2811a4fb48d79d80072c7a70c79a9b408407c387bd9b548100707f84ec87f42/P4070057AF.JPG" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9eb349a777a1cb1e984bea9363b9892f03a7a4c2877062912605156be7fecfc6/Fish-House---02.jpeg" data-mid="59076413" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9eb349a777a1cb1e984bea9363b9892f03a7a4c2877062912605156be7fecfc6/Fish-House---02.jpeg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/97ef7b8cc88de1bd1f9386100add3c3000b634b2486b38fe28b6066b3fb9b3bd/Fish-House---03.jpeg" data-mid="59076427" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/97ef7b8cc88de1bd1f9386100add3c3000b634b2486b38fe28b6066b3fb9b3bd/Fish-House---03.jpeg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9a2d77f81bd5a2b217ef39b4755458324940736a2fc3a5a86f6540d8b687b303/Fish-House---04.jpeg" data-mid="59076444" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9a2d77f81bd5a2b217ef39b4755458324940736a2fc3a5a86f6540d8b687b303/Fish-House---04.jpeg" /> <img width="2500" height="3750" width_o="2500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ace22991930493f6979285df02627caac7955197b1e280d3cf42945eb86b2919/Fish-House---05.jpeg" data-mid="59076486" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ace22991930493f6979285df02627caac7955197b1e280d3cf42945eb86b2919/Fish-House---05.jpeg" /> <img width="2500" height="3750" width_o="2500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/302bf258652f0296e901ce3f996be0ba43b17c41fe117ee15807946f7bd47e20/Fish-House---06.jpeg" data-mid="59076525" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/302bf258652f0296e901ce3f996be0ba43b17c41fe117ee15807946f7bd47e20/Fish-House---06.jpeg" /> <img width="2500" height="3750" width_o="2500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ed5ae68d547d1ffb8f4b47003c6bcf78d85de503d8b3ca131b5275e7b2592bec/Fish-House---07.jpeg" data-mid="59076622" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ed5ae68d547d1ffb8f4b47003c6bcf78d85de503d8b3ca131b5275e7b2592bec/Fish-House---07.jpeg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8d1d87f8f0f03d3deb03b4ab4ec96c44106b733199d23f3b864bb44bdf2939d3/Fish-House---08.jpeg" data-mid="59076634" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8d1d87f8f0f03d3deb03b4ab4ec96c44106b733199d23f3b864bb44bdf2939d3/Fish-House---08.jpeg" /> FISH HOUSE GRADE 2 BUILDING RENOVATION Set in a site of special and scientific interest (SSSI) this conversion of a 1850s grade II listed barn into a zero carbon, ultra-eco adaptive commercial farm residence drew on local eco-farming knowledge and diversity. By retrofitting first we made the derelict barn relevant and agile again through adopting a more humane mandate to tackle the climate crisis. Our “hacking and honing” approach made this transformation super green by making the historic fabric highly insulative and future proofed for the slow type of heat generated by compact ground source heat pumps (Nibe F1245 8kW), freeing up space previously wasted by redundant tanked heating systems and saving £400 per year on a fossil fuel equivalent heating system. This super green approach places greater emphasis on material choices based on a desire to capture, enhance and retain sunlight and mark the colours and tones of the Northern European seasons. This mimics the UK swing to low energy zero carbon electrified heating alternatives that we have tested in our practice based research on earlier projects including ︎PopUpUte, Mountsorrell House, ︎21st Century Span and ︎the Helix. The birch plywood clad interior reveals our painstaking research into humble timber craft often found in formal and informal Japanese dining spaces Chashitsu (tea houses) and Izakaya (taverns). The barn was originally used for horse and carriages and latterly used as an out-building for farm tool and garden storage as well as car parking garage. As part of the Bere Mill estate, a working farm, to provide a new farm shop and accommodation for occasional fishing as part of farm diversity.&nbsp; Set in the valley of the River Test to the east of Whitchurch in Hampshire it comprises a 100 Acre farm producing high quality beef from Belted Galloway Cattle and Black Welsh Mountain Sheep, an orchard, formal and natural gardens, a lake, and through the middle of the estate a section of the River Test - an important chalk stream. Bere Mill House itself is a Grade II listed watermill that essentially comprises two barns either side of the mill stream with the main masonry house linking the two. A plaque on the side of the house dates the original construction of the main house as 1710. Importantly it is the mill where Henri de Porteil started to make notepaper for the Bank of England. As Stephanie Donaldson writes in House &amp; Garden, “It is hard to imagine a more picturesque setting than that of Bere Mill, near Whitchurch in Hampshire. The eighteenth-century weatherboarded buildings and their surrounding gardens sit low in the landscape, bounded on one side by the crystal-clear waters of the River Test. On the far bank, cattle and sheep graze the water meadows as they have done for hundreds of years.” CLIENT Private COMPLETED 2016PHOTOSAgnese Sanvito https://friendandcompany.co.uk/STUDIO-3 Mon, 25 Feb 2019 16:23:45 +0000 friendandcompany https://friendandcompany.co.uk/STUDIO-3 <img width="2500" height="3750" width_o="2500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/393dc12d7e4d195fff50e93b235fc459e3087369db57ae145e67bdc1bc524234/Studio-3---01.jpg" data-mid="59076769" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/393dc12d7e4d195fff50e93b235fc459e3087369db57ae145e67bdc1bc524234/Studio-3---01.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1889" width_o="2500" height_o="1889" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5455578a9617daa73108de760a6f1566d27524b4993187ada0c437208c9ec0de/Studio-3---02.jpg" data-mid="59076798" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5455578a9617daa73108de760a6f1566d27524b4993187ada0c437208c9ec0de/Studio-3---02.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="3746" width_o="2500" height_o="3746" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ec828e6fae995d39a6ede2d2ecdb38d6fa6f14f08a9458d2f8055341ef4f96ae/Studio-3---03.jpeg" data-mid="59076860" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ec828e6fae995d39a6ede2d2ecdb38d6fa6f14f08a9458d2f8055341ef4f96ae/Studio-3---03.jpeg" /> <img width="2500" height="3750" width_o="2500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8c708345799aefc935abc96effee84bb74394d994d2244a1c63b3b41bd2319bd/Studio-3---04.jpg" data-mid="59076886" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8c708345799aefc935abc96effee84bb74394d994d2244a1c63b3b41bd2319bd/Studio-3---04.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9a6e4341095d7e3aa45dd9643fd24b8435dc07c24b4a62e185bf2ebf40de86cf/Studio-3---05.jpg" data-mid="59077012" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9a6e4341095d7e3aa45dd9643fd24b8435dc07c24b4a62e185bf2ebf40de86cf/Studio-3---05.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="3750" width_o="2500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1fceb95fad91e5148e6c2412e54a9eaac4d61b3e2ecb59a1cbca32e1b3141cf9/Studio-3---06.jpg" data-mid="59077076" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1fceb95fad91e5148e6c2412e54a9eaac4d61b3e2ecb59a1cbca32e1b3141cf9/Studio-3---06.jpg" /> STUDIO 3 LONDON E1 HOUSING Friend and Company converted a grade II listed Victorian School into new housing apartments that included the addition of a low maintenance extension prefabricated from Cor-Ten (weathering steel) that was both structure and hermetically sealed waterproof envelope profiled external ‘photobolic shelf’ used to passively attenuate the air temperature within the converted Studios and bounce reflected light deeper into the main living space. Use of weathering steel for new external walls and roof ensures low maintenance and was also successfully justified in discussion with the planners as best way of complimenting the existing red brick historic structures.CLIENTPrivate COMPLETED 2014 PHOTOS Agnese Sanvito https://friendandcompany.co.uk/SOUND-MIRROR Mon, 25 Feb 2019 16:40:54 +0000 friendandcompany https://friendandcompany.co.uk/SOUND-MIRROR <img width="2500" height="1837" width_o="2500" height_o="1837" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e961b332c36dcc451208c913be5d787f42fe1da8c3a74b364412b5d86d37e495/Sound-Mirror---Model.jpg" data-mid="59077745" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e961b332c36dcc451208c913be5d787f42fe1da8c3a74b364412b5d86d37e495/Sound-Mirror---Model.jpg" /> SOUND MIRROR INSTALLATION&nbsp; Working with Artist Hannah Sawtell, Sound Mirror is a 10m high by 35m deep concrete land art sculpture commissioned by the Focal Point Gallery in partnership with Southend on Sea Borough Council for a site in the Two Tree Island Nature Reserve in a site of special and scientific interest (SSSI). The Sound Mirror was proposed for a sound installation and annual music festival, designed amplify as well as contain sound as part of an art installation. The design expresses the performative nature of Sawtell’s work as well as responds to the surrounding landscape inhabited by 1920s military installations used in World War II to listen for approaching planes before they were visible to the naked eye as they crossed the English Channel and before the advent of radar. There are a number of original structures of a similar design still in existence around the country some of which are protected heritage assets and the idea was that this would also draw attention to the local historic monuments as well as offer facilities for community uses and local way-finding. CLIENTFocal Point Gallery COLLABORATION Hannah Sawtell - artist EXHIBITION MODELCapital Models PROJECT YEAR 2016 https://friendandcompany.co.uk/BRUNSWICK-FLAT Mon, 25 Feb 2019 16:09:08 +0000 friendandcompany https://friendandcompany.co.uk/BRUNSWICK-FLAT <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eebdafd82a58b420e65b29d31ac693e1c5be54e460ced954f695cf445d90c67a/Brunswick---Living-Room.jpeg" data-mid="59077763" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eebdafd82a58b420e65b29d31ac693e1c5be54e460ced954f695cf445d90c67a/Brunswick---Living-Room.jpeg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e20ed516e28c514b38b5a814023264e8d2dbe2778688534a47bf460c0b1339f1/Brunswick---Kitchen.jpeg" data-mid="59077799" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e20ed516e28c514b38b5a814023264e8d2dbe2778688534a47bf460c0b1339f1/Brunswick---Kitchen.jpeg" /> <img width="2500" height="3750" width_o="2500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/072d2f84b1db69ad8dd3e277f502246ee100d8873cb06e74393228ed2820e59c/Brunswick---Bathroom.jpeg" data-mid="59077829" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/072d2f84b1db69ad8dd3e277f502246ee100d8873cb06e74393228ed2820e59c/Brunswick---Bathroom.jpeg" /> <img width="2500" height="3750" width_o="2500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d0e0fcd5801b1b207ddf5e020f26b539982982eadb570851d2351c978c2eb538/Brunswick---Balcony.jpeg" data-mid="59077842" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d0e0fcd5801b1b207ddf5e020f26b539982982eadb570851d2351c978c2eb538/Brunswick---Balcony.jpeg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be3397067c416cbdae83b4614f2f6e3d316fab469f977700e42929bdfbafc6bd/Brunswick---Dining.jpeg" data-mid="59078028" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/be3397067c416cbdae83b4614f2f6e3d316fab469f977700e42929bdfbafc6bd/Brunswick---Dining.jpeg" /> <img width="2500" height="3750" width_o="2500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4ec9f0f305fc84810bb47c6a5519d1a0a7f2e541a446f67d528ecda2c112309b/Brunswick---Corridor-Kitchen.jpeg" data-mid="59078032" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4ec9f0f305fc84810bb47c6a5519d1a0a7f2e541a446f67d528ecda2c112309b/Brunswick---Corridor-Kitchen.jpeg" /> <img width="2500" height="3750" width_o="2500" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bc620218674af9659e66819e3d2708e3ead4b003d114c629783513036462605b/Brunswick---Studio.jpeg" data-mid="59078047" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bc620218674af9659e66819e3d2708e3ead4b003d114c629783513036462605b/Brunswick---Studio.jpeg" /> BRUNSWICK FLAT LONDON WC1 RENOVATION Built in 1973 this two bedroom Brunswick Centre flat was unaltered for 40 years, the result of decisions mid-construction to accommodate Local Authority tenants in place of affluent professionals as originally intended. The design brief, reinstated the original brief for a modern open plan and flexible space that can be easily divided by sliding walls including occasional kitchen that could be folded away and revert to a wooden sideboard. Interior design inspired by space saving visions of future living, often exhibited at international arts and crafts exhibitions, where modern designers tested the benefits of early industrial manufacturing processes, sawing and preparing woods. Suspended ‘weightless’ wall furniture in oak veneer was influenced by designer Janette Laverrière whose mid-century modern streamlined suspended furniture celebrated wood veneers as applied decoration and had the advantage of showing the full extent of the room to maximise the feeling of luxury space, as well as mimic democratic qualities dormant in the abstracted residential totality that is the iconic Brunswick Centre, made of mathematically calibrated terraces, a self contained urban module in the heart of Bloomsbury, construction of which started in the year of the first Apollo moon landings. Opening solid oak counter lid reveals a fully fitted kitchen including, retractable tap, Induction Hob and integrated appliances. Above counter a wall recess is a handy tea and spice cupboard. The lower wall furniture, modeled on the proportions of the Isokon Penguin donkey, wraps the corridor and living room as well as offering a useful ledge to display paintings and artworks.CLIENT PrivateCOMPLETED 2014PHOTOS Agnese SanvitoAWARDS Don’t Move, Improve! 2013/14 - Shortlisted