King Henry's Road

for Paul Middlemiss
Primros Hill, London
£70k Contract Sum
completed Aug '03

This room is very nearly not a room. An architecture of Invisibility. To be inside yet feel outside.

Glass technologt is pushed to a new level, with the simple walls acting as cantilevers to support the roof. Columns or fins are done away with, leaving the wall plane absolutely clear. The roof is a single sheet of glass, supported by tthe thinnest of glass beams. The dimensions of the form are determind by the largest glass-toughening kiln in the UK.

Shortlisted in the Architects Journal Small Projects Award 2003.

Published in The Sunday Times 'Home' section Feb '04