1483 - Montacute Yards

Hackney

A new build office and retail development in a constrained and awkwardly shaped site in Shoreditch.

Key Features:

• Site has considerable archaeology including the remains of a medieval friary and church. Basement geometry and ground works have been designed to minimise the disruption to the archaeology and meet the requirements of Historic England. 

• Basement and superstructure strategy agreed with network rail set at 1.5m from adjacent viaduct. 

• Large diameter truck sewer approximately 5m below ground level crosses the site. Foundations designed to bridge over the sewer with piles either side. 

• Exposed steel frame exoskeleton forms the facades with the steelwork designed to minimise cold bridging and to allow for thermal differential moments of the frame. 

• The majority of the steelwork internally and externally is exposed and provides the architecture. As a result the size, geometry and connection detailing has been carefully designed alongside the architect. 

Client: Brockton CapitalArchitect: AHMM

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People:
Tom Steel
Carmel Lennon
Jonathan Macdonald