A House for Artists

London, United Kingdom, Europe

Completed · Residential · Below-Market Artist Housing With Community Hall · Temperate · 2021

A five-storey concrete apartment block in Barking providing twelve below-market homes and workspaces for artists, plus a ground-floor community hall. Tenants pay part of their rent in time delivering free creative activities locally. Flats are highly adaptable and reached by open shared decks. It was shortlisted for the 2023 RIBA Stirling Prize and won the 2023 Neave Brown Award.

Innovation highlights

• Rent-partly-in-time tenure model
• Adaptable flats with removable internal walls
• Wide shared decks as social escape routes
• Exposed concrete frame for flexibility and longevity

Innovations in the catalogue

• Adaptable Open-Plan Flats With Movable Walls
• Wide Shared Access Decks as Social Space
• Rent-Partly-In-Kind Community Tenure

Client / Developer

London Borough of Barking and Dagenham / Create London

Architect

Apparata Architects

Engineer

Max Fordham (services)

Type

Below-market artist housing with community hall

#affordable housing #flexible housing #community #deck access #tenure innovation

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