Fat

Abstract

The house is situated on a small street running perpendicular to the main thoroughfare, Hackney Road in East London. The area is currently run down but in the process of regeneration. It contains a mix of uses which include private town houses, public housing projects, shops and light industry. The programme for the new building is a two bedroom town house which incorporates an office space, connected into the house, and a separate flat for rent. The design evolved out of an earlier competition entry for a billboard house whose premise was that the front facade would house advertising posters which would help to pay for its construction. The house in Garner Street refines this idea. The front facade consists of a three storey block with three rows of small windows at the top, making it look like a typical, if under scaled, office block. Superimposed on this block is a billboard which takes the shape of a house and extends to form the wall to the garden. The building therefore communicates what it is — a house and an office