Built Stuff
Fairmule House
Client:
Private Developer
Project:
Fairmule House 23-35 Waterson Street E2 8HE
Mixed Use Development Including 11 Flats and 7 B1 Units
Date:
June 2004 - May 2006
Budget:
1,500,000
Further Info:
View Press Release (.pdf)
Evening Standard-February 2006
Architects Journal-October 2005
New Civil Engineer Aug 2005
Prefabulous catalogue
LABC article
Fairmule House
Background and Brief
Quay 2c obtained planning permission for this site in Hoxton in 2004. The site backs onto a former churchyard and has a street elevation to Waterson Street. The clients brief was for a mix of residential units and B1 units. The scheme became the largest mixed use building in the UK thats main superstructure employed prefabricated solid laminate timber panels.
Scheme
The scheme incorporates 11 flats and 7 B1 units, and is a reworking of the previous permission by others with single aspect units, to provide double aspect accomodation. The churchyard to the rear is the final resting place of one Thomas Fairchild, the originator of cross breeding of plants when he owned a market gardening business nearby. Quay 2c are interested in the hybridisation of the site conditions and worked with images of sweet williams and carnations, the two plants that Fairchild crossbred form his famous ‘Fairchild mule’. The front elevation uses galvanised steel panels recalling watering cans etc while the churchyard elevation is of timber shingles. Both elevations have glazed balustrades and panels with images laminated in them by artist Julia Manheim.
“Other highlights of the Prefabulous show include the brilliant all-wood Fairmule House scheme” Fay Sweet - Evening Standard Homes and Property. 1st February 2006
Client:
Private Developer
Project:
Fairmule House 23-35 Waterson Street E2 8HE
Mixed Use Development Including 11 Flats and 7 B1 Units
Date:
June 2004 - May 2006
Budget:
1,500,000
South facing street elevation
Churchyard elevation
Rear elevation showing Fairmule artwork-balustrades. Photograph by Anthony Coleman.
Artwork-balustrade detail. Photograph by Anthony Coleman.
Front elevation from Hackney Rd. Photograph by Anthony Coleman.
Front elevation detail. Photograph by Anthony Coleman.
West-rear elevation. Photograph by Anthony Coleman.
Back elevation at night. Photograph by Anthony Coleman.
Interior showing artwork-balustrades. Photograph by Anthony Coleman.
Interior stairwell. Photograph by Anthony Coleman.
Installation of timber structure.
‘Service Core’ 13.07.05
Internal construction 13.07.05
The Waterson St. site.