Spectrum House

Location: Spectrum House, Hillview Gardens, Hendon, London NW4 2JR

Client: Exceilisor Developments

Scale: 32 apartments with basement parking for 40 cars

Planning: London Borough of Barnet, 17/6496/FUL

Brief

Exceilisor Developments asked us to redevelop a commercial site in Hendon as one, two and three-bedroom apartments for open sale, built using modern methods of construction (MMC).

The site held a two-storey brick office building at the front, a two and three-storey office building in the rear corner and a large warehouse along the rear boundary, next to the gardens of Albert Road.

Planning approval covers demolition and a part two, part three-storey building of 32 flats, with private and communal amenity space and basement parking.

Response

We worked with ESS Modular to set up a framework agreement and deliver the scheme as fully volumetric MMC (Category 1).

The façade uses site-applied brick slip. We broke the building into smaller volumes that follow the local street pattern, using different brick colours and stepped forms.

Up to 80% of the construction work took place in the factory in Ireland. The modules were then delivered to site and installed in three weeks.

Our role

We were architect for the scheme and MMC adviser to the modular supplier. We managed two contracts, the basement and a separate MMC main contract, and coordinated the interface between them.

Outcome

The scheme delivered 32 open-sale apartments with gardens, balconies and underground parking. The framework agreement set up here was reused on our Golders Green Road scheme.

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Project Info

• Category: Residential
• Location: Spectrum House, Hillview Gardens, London, NW4 2JR