Barbican Dancer’s Studio

Project year2020
Project categories
Published in Dezeen
Barbican Dancer’s Studio
Barbican Dancer’s Studio
Barbican Dancer’s Studio
Barbican Dancer’s Studio
Barbican Dancer’s Studio
Barbican Dancer’s Studio
Barbican Dancer’s Studio
Barbican Dancer’s Studio
Barbican Dancer’s Studio
Barbican Dancer’s Studio
Barbican Dancer’s Studio
Barbican Dancer’s Studio
Barbican Dancer’s Studio
Barbican Dancer’s Studio
Barbican Dancer’s Studio

IA have recently designed and completed the built-in joinery and refurbishment of a studio apartment in the Barbican, in London.

Working closely with the client, a royal ballet soloist, we injected movement within the space with a changeable joinery solution to maximise storage and create alternate uses and zones within a compact floor area. We were keen to approach this project with a minimal aesthetic to amplify the brutalist architecture within this context of the Barbican estate.

Facing the living area, a moveable library shelf with a worktop for plants, and bench seats, can be added to with a table top (stored away by hanging on the wall) with fold out legs; to create a dining area.

When the table top is hung on the wall as another surface, a fold-down bed emerges from the plywood wall.

Build-in high level shelving and bed-side niches with lighting, and drawers, are also concealed in the plywood wall, which is lined in a marmoleum pink to compliment the clay table top and modernist blue soft felt seats.

New flooring was installed as an engineered light oak to compliment the plywood, with a grey marmoleum floor installed within the original kitchen. To the original bathroom new grey grouting refreshed the space.

Featured in Dezeen: here

Featured in London Evening Standard: here

Featured in Dwell: here

Featured in Roca Gallery exhibition Small Spaces here.

Client
Private
Location
London
Joinery install
The Winding House
Photography
Handover