Phoenix Garden Community Building in London
Phoenix Garden Community Building, 21 Stacey Street Architecture, Soho Landscape Images
Phoenix Garden Community Building in London
Public Building Project in Soho, London, UK – design by Office Sian Architecture + Design
24 Apr 2019
Phoenix Garden Community Building
Architects: Office Sian Architecture + Design
Location: 21 Stacey St, Soho, London WC2H 8DG, UK
The Phoenix Garden Community Building is located in the heart London, in Soho, and a few metres from both Covent Garden and Leicester Square. It is the first purpose-built new-build community centre in central London for generations, and is attached to the highly acclaimed Phoenix Garden.
The design was developed from an early concept of ‘garden walls’, as a metaphor for ideas of enclosure, secrecy, and boundaries. With a strong emphasis on local context and sustainable design, the building features robust brickwork detailing, super-insulating materials, air-source heat pumps, water-harvesting, and green roofs, therefore increasing the level of biodiversity of the area.
The building sites on a previous bomb site, so an initial challenge was to try to understand how to build upon extremely poor ground conditions.
The Phoenix Garden is a community garden and registered charity, managed by volunteers, created to provide a green retreat from the stresses of London’s West End and a vital habitat for urban wildlife. Though, compared to other gardens we are comparably small (only a third of an...
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