a. Carmarthen Place, Bermondsey, London
Client: Private Developer
Completion Date: July 2006
Contract sum: £500.000
WINNER OF WOOD AWARDS OFF-SITE CONSTRUCTION AWARD 2007
Project Description
Carmarthen Place consists of a tight urban site set behind a street of listed buildings on Bermondsey Street.
The project contains two new 3-storey town houses addressing the curved corner of the site and a single storey artist’s studio that would enclose a courtyard. The houses were designed with living spaces and roof terraces on the top floors and bedrooms on the ground in order to maximise on the light, without loss of privacy. An innovative screw pile foundation system was used to reduce the disruption to the ground, which was of archaeological interest, and to surrounding foundations of neighbouring listed buildings.
A prefabricated solid timber panel system was chosen for the superstructure. Window and door openings are cut out of a 100mm thick timber panels. The insulation, battens and cladding are applied and then the panels are craned into place. The floors and roofs follow.
The fit out has been reduced to a minimal design as the system allows for reducing wet trades to floor areas only as the exposed timber panel becomes the wall and ceiling finish offering a warm tactility well known to timber. A poured resin floor throughout has been used as a counterpoint to the timber finish.
