Track Record/London Boroughs

Kensington & Chelsea/Permitted development/ House in Holland Park

HEAT have recently completed the refurbishment of a house in Holland Park, backing onto beautiful park-like communal gardens. A complete refurbishment included programmable lighting, new bathrooms and finishes and a new kitchen. There were improvements to the rear elevation to restore the original proportions of windows. All this was completed without the need for planning permission as the alterations fell within permitted development rights.

Project 089

Won/05.08.06

Developer/Lambeth/ Clapham Development

Clapham, London: Incorporating 12,000 sq ft of retail/A3 units and 14 loft apartments on the upper three stories, this brownfield development was designed from the start to be low-energy, with  natural cooling, water recycling and common parts lit by solar cells. Natural light will flood into the apartments. There is a ‘hanging garden’ with mature birch trees at the second floor level shielding the apartments from noise and pollution.

Planning consent was gained by HEAT from the London Borough of Lambeth.

Project 049

Won/01.07.06

Developer/Kensington & Chelsea/ Fire Station Plan

HEAT have been appointed by developers Fisher Land to carry out a feasibility and planning appraisal of the Chelsea Fire Station site in the Kings Road. Our fully developed scheme retains a full working fire station and incorporates 39 Residential units over four floors and 6000 sq ft of retail space.

Project 084

Won/25.03.06

Developer/Kensington & Chelsea/ Fire Station Conversion

HEAT were appointed to take part in a developer competition to redesign Chelsea Fire Station in the Kings Road.

The design incorporated a new rebuilt fire station clad in red glass with 31 apartments and three A1 Units based around a landscaped atrium with glass elevators. With a confined urban site you have to be inventive and make spaces work hard, so each apartment is provided with a “winter garden”; glazed balconies which can be closed in winter and fully opened to become open terraces in summer.

The site is on a corner overlooking an open space, so the design has two primary façades.

Project 084

Won/21.07.05

Westminster/ 1930’s Apartment

Between the wars a number of streamlined apartment buildings appeared in London. The larger ones are known as “Mansion Flats” and even have a small apartment-within-an-apartment for a maid or housekeeper. This flat had been in the same family for fifty years and the brief was to modernise the interior.

Situated on a busy road near Lords’Cricket ground, one of the first things we did was to re-glaze the windows in sound-reducing glass. The interior was elegant and contemporary but with rich natural finishes: travertine in the bathrooms and stone on the floors. The flat was let for rental immediately on completion to an embassy on a five year let, so was judged to be a highly successful project.

Project 074

Won/01.05.05

Developer/Hammersmith & Fulham/ Kings Road Mixed-Use Success

Planning consent has been granted by Hammersmith and Fulham Council for a four-storey new build 32,000 sq. ft. mixed-use development on the New Kings Road in West London for developer Starcrest Investments.

Designed by HEAT Architecture, the consent comes as result of over two years of detailed negotiations with the planning authority and local residents. The development, which is set within a highly sensitive conservation area, will be clearly visible when viewed across Eel Brook Common. It is surrounded on three sides by numerous private residences, some of which are listed.

The £6m proposal will provide nearly 8000sq.ft. of retail space along the 38 metre frontage, along with 13,600 sq. ft of offices and three penthouse apartments on the top floor. The loft style apartments make maximum use of north light with a full height glazed façade overlooking the Common. They will incorporate large domed rooflights set within the lightweight over-sailing roof canopy.

Project 043

Won/06.03.05

Richmond/ House in Barnes

Barnes, London: During his brief tenure, the previous owner of this elegant early Victorian stucco fronted house in Barnes had virtually demolished the interior, including the stairs. We obtained planning consent from the London Borough of Richmond for a new cantilevered wooden staircase in a glass tower at the rear creating larger spaces at each floor level. Interior mouldings and panelling were restored and the new elements designed to blend with the original. Winner of Wood Awards small project award, Published House and Garden Feb 2014.

Project 048

Won/09.09.04

City/Retail/ Fashion Retail

HEAT specialise in Residential projects, but we were invited by one of our clients, Madeleine Hamilton, to design her retail fashion store on Chancery Lane.  A former solicitor herself, some of the top female lawyers in London beat a path  to Madeleine’s shop.

Considering the  huge range of stock the interior space was very limited and the interior fittings and displays were custom-designed to fit as perfectly as Madeleine’s beautiful clothes.

Project 065

Won/27.08.04

Barnet/ Gallery Courtyard

The clients for a new-build house  that we completed previously in Hampstead asked us to look at creating an art gallery extension on the neighbouring site. The design would have to integrate with the existing house and be of superlative quality. It would incorporate an extension to the underground garage, guest accommodation and an event/gallery space looking into a courtyard with a mirror plane of water.

Our response was to sink the gallery one level down and create a large internal courtyard space with internal and external sculpture galleries.

Project 075

Won/18.06.04

Kensington & Chelsea/ House with Wine Cellar

Our brief for this project in Holland Park included the requirement to store an impressive wine collection. In the interests of research we embarked on a tour of the secretive world of London’s private wine cellars. Our solution was to create a dining room lined with glass-fronted walk-in cellars, dimly lit with Italian marmorino walls, a basalt floor running through and woven stainless steel screen to protect the wine from direct light. Concealed lighting and a glass link to the floor above complete the drama and sense of ritual.

The same stone floor and detailing was carried through to the Boffi kitchen; the basalt and wine-red glass splashback forming a theme for the bathrooms and walk-in wet rooms.

Planning Consent was gained from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea for a conservatory extension at the rear and changes to the windows on the rear elevation

Published: RIBA Journal

Project 068

Won/08.04.04