Sail Loft
Commercial Road, London
This mixed use building challenges conventional thinking on the quality and character of high density living. Retail at lower ground floors support a residential development above. It incorporates a listed structure and creates a new sustainable building typology using modular construction. A magnanimous townscape gesture by way of a public winter garden on a strategic view corridor ensures this building couples townscape presence with architectural excellence.
The retractable winter garden roof provides an open air environment in appropriate conditions. Dwellings are designed on a ‘room module’ and preformed from concrete. Being thermally massive they regulate internal temperature fluctuations and enhance residents’ comfort. A mini Combined Heat and Power plant on site completes this demonstration project’s green credentials.
- Inflatable & retractable roof creates winter garden as year round amenity
- Completely modular construction – no wet trades
- Passive stack ventilation throughout
- Prefabricated concrete wall and floor modules with integrated conduits
- Running costs approximately 50% of norm
- 115 apartments arranged around the winter garden
- Mixed use including 25,000 sq ft of commercial