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Norwood House, Grays Essex Property

11 July 2022

Design: Adam Knibb Architects

Location: Grays, Essex, Southeast England, UK

Norwood House Grays Essex Property

Images: Adam Knibb Architects

Norwood House, Essex

The unique Norwood House site measures only 13m long x 3.2m wide with a requirement to allow access through for neighbouring properties. Our client purchased the land with the idea to transform the airspace above.

Norwood House Grays Essex Property

An office has been designed at the first floor level and a studio apartment to the second floor, along with a roof terrace across the whole top of the building. The visually dynamic statement at ground / first floor aligns with the neighbouring house scale and the floors above to ‘disappear’ into the sky.

Sheltered parking has been allowed for at ground floor level whilst retaining through access to the neighbouring shed at the rear. Structural posts line the north and south boundaries and an external spiral stair provides access to the two floors and roof terrace above. The inclusion of an external spiral stair works efficiently to cause minimal disruption to the internal layout. This also aids privacy, access issues and a necessary provision for fire escape.

Norwood House Grays Essex Property

The first floor houses the proposed commercial office space. We have looked to include a shower room and kitchenette, as well as utilising useful storage solutions where possible. The desk spaces are framed by a full width set of sliding doors on the west elevation to allow as much light as possible into the floor plan. A Juliet balcony safely allows for one door to remain open during the summer for natural ventilation.

The second floor holds the studio apartment, where the more private spaces such as the bedroom and shower room are housed towards the rear away from St Dunstan’s Road. The kitchenette and living/dining zone also enjoy a full width set of sliding doors that provide access to a small outdoor terrace.

The spiral stair continues upwards to a proposed roof terrace, providing 22m2 of shared amenity space for the building’s occupants.

Norwood House Grays Essex Property

A mixture of dark textured cladding and a translucent skin have been proposed as the primary external cladding materials to provide depth to the massing and create a sense of light transparency at higher levels. Openings in the envelope appear more subtle from the surrounding roads and the translucent character gives the building a different appearance at day and at night.

Architecture: Adam Knibb Architects – https://www.adamknibbarchitects.com/

Norwood House Grays Essex Property

Drawings and renders: Adam Knibb Architects

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Location: Essex, south east England, UK

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