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ABOUT

MIDDLESEX STREET ESTATE - JOIE DE VIVRE

BRIEF

The site is the Middlesex Street Estate, home to 880 inhabitants situated on the borders of Middlesex Street and Petticoat Lane Market. The client is the City of London Corporation, which is the municipal governing body of the City of London. The project considers two aspects: the Street with market stalls and retail units; the Social Housing Estate with the redevelopment of a flat.

SITE

The Estate sits on the boundary of two Borough Councils, the City of London Corporation and London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Petticoat Lane is situated along Middlesex Street and the interjecting spur of Wentworth Street.

The original design of the Estate in 1967 responded to the market by lining the pavement level with retail units. Its program integrated the self-sufficient characteristics of providing homes and shops for its inhabitants which in turn would provide work and jobs and add strength to the already bustling and very popular market.

MIDDLESEX STREET ESTATE

The estate is a brutalist building, built-in 1967-72, the original design of the estate responded to the market by lining the pavement level with retail units. The estate provides both homes and shops for its inhabitants, which in turn would provide work and add strength to the already bustling and very popular market, Petticoat Lane Market.

Petticoat Lane Market in its heyday provided a huge variety of goods and stalls offering everything a family might need in their weekly shopping and much more.

This carnival of retail has disappeared, the market has severally suffered from external competition and online shopping, and now it offers very little.

We were asked to design the interior of one of the shops within the series of shops within the undercroft of the Estate.

PROPOSED VISUAL 1

PROPOSED VISUAL 2

SKETCH OF THE EXISTING STAIR

SKETCH OF PROPOSAL SHOP

MIDDLESEX STREET STAIR

The concrete stairway at the south end of the new square previously linked the ground to the first floor courtyard of the Middlesex Street housing estate. This is now redundant since access is closed off and new residential units have been inserted. Since this forms a significant feature on the new square, City of London Corporation are inviting proposals to retrofit the stair for imaginative re-use.’ Cass Projects Office

Your brief is to reimagine this stair into a vital element within the street.

FINAL PROPOSED FLAT

The proposal of this apartment shows how much a limited, although it has a limited space, can still have the necessary qualities to be able to create a more adequate space. An ideal space where you can perform various activities such as growing plants in the balcony or it could be used for physical activities.

The goal is to create an apartment that demonstrates how a simple social house flat can be a welcoming place with a simple and flexible design but also to create a flat that improves the living and the health of the tenant by including bioliphic elements within the flat.