Believe It or Not, This Home Used to Be a Dilapidated Public Bathroom
There?s virtually no space left for housing within the entire city of London, yet the city?s population continues to grow every year, requiring at least 250,000 new dwellings annually just to keep up. There?s a high concentration of single-family homes taking up valuable plots, and the city has made it difficult for developers to build upwards. The homes that are available tend to be extremely expensive, inaccessible to all but the wealthiest buyers. What else is there to do" If more architects follow Laura Clark?s example, the answer might require some creative thinking to squeeze housing out of the most unexpected places.
During the three decades of its abandonment, nobody would have wanted to live in this subterranean space beneath London?s Crystal Palace Parade, a stop on the city?s transit network adjacent to Crystal Palace Park. Built in 1929, this space was used as a public restroom for over fifty years, and when it was closed in the 1980s, all of the toilets, urinals and sinks were left in place. It wasn?t pretty, yet Clark saw its potential right away.
She first spotted the space in 2005 and envisioned turning it into a bar or tiny movie theater, ?something quirky and fun that would breathe life back into a neglected part of the local landscape.?
Ultimately, Clark decided to take on the project of transforming the derelict restroom into a sleek one-bedroom home for herself through her practice, Lamp Architects. It took her six years just to persuade local aut...
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