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A converted warehouse home in a former industrial building in Clerkenwell

The brick building contains a grid of original concrete beams.

 

Found Object is a recently completed warehouse conversion project in Clerkenwell, London, by WILLIAM TOZER Associates.

This converted warehouse home by William Tozer Associates is in a former industrial building in Clerkenwell

Looking from the kitchen across the living space offers a glimpse into the more private areas of the project.

 

WILLIAM TOZER Associates is an award-winning architecture practice headquartered in London. With clients based in the UK, US, Australia and New Zealand, projects that the practice has worked on include housing, office, retail, and hospitality. Their work is inspired by early-twentieth century Viennese modernist master architect Adolf Loos, on whom practice founder William Tozer completed his doctorate at the Bartlett.

The latest project is called Found Object and is the conversion of a former industrial warehouse building in Clerkenwell. Throughout the project, the existing building components were either presented as raw materials - brick, concrete and steel – to retain their found object status or painted white in order to relate to the modern insertions.

Any new architectural components that were added, such as the warehouse-style glass partitions or the wall panels that feature peeling paint, were designed as either sculptural rectilinear planes or detailed to appear as ambiguously new or old. Materials that are obviously new are made from a continuous plane of a single material such as concrete, timber or a white paint finish.

Photography by William Tozer Associates.

Old and new elements work together in this converted warehouse home in Clerkenwell by William Tozer Associates

The open plan spaces are loosely divided by the new structures and concealed doors enable discrete rooms to be enclosed.

 

Architectural rawing for a converted warehouse home in Clerkenwell by William Tozer Associates

The drawings show how the original structure and the new composition of sculptural planes and volumes work together.

 

Walls of peeling paint floorboards, board-form concrete and formwork feature heavily in this converted warehouse home byWilliam Tozer Associates

Different spaces present varying intensities of new and old building elements of steel, glass, brick, concrete, timber, and paint finishes.

 

The ensuite master bathroom appears open-plan to the bedroom in this converted warehouse home by William Tozer Associates

The ensuite master bathroom appears open-plan to the bedroom due to the intersection of glazed and concrete walls.

 

The gridded glass and steel room partitions echo industrial-style windows in this converted warehouse home by William Tozer Associates

The gridded glass and steel room partitions echo the industrial-style windows of the original building.

 

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