Station Lodge

London, 2022

From the start this was intended to be a new build house like no other – one that exuberantly celebrated every element of its fully exposed structural shell. Wedged onto the site of some disused garages the site constraints created a defining geometry which then ran through the every part of the expressed steelwork and timber hybrid frame.

Team: Architect: Lacy & Saltykov architects
Contractor: Carlund Ltd.
Structural steelwork: ESS

Materials: Expressed steelwork structural frame
Exposed douglas fir roof structure
Engineering timber open web joist floor build-up
Loadbearing blockwork
Precast beam & block floor with piled ground beams

Awards: Shortlisted: Manser Medal 2024

Photos: Will Pryce

Design

Geometrically led the project was developed through a series of physical, analytical and digital models which enabled us to optimise the structure and then work onto developing details and connections.

Build

Much of the construction utilised traditional, economic typologies with loadbearing blockwork and engineered timber joists. These techniques were then coupled with a complex cranked steel framework supporting a fully exposed diagrid pitched roof structure with an overlapping layering of long span douglas fir and steel plate beams with pitched douglas fir roof joists.

The internal structural shell is completely exposed and the connections whilst fully expressed also needed to be simple and economic. Iterative modelling of each nodal point allow the joints to be rationalised down to a repeated language of bolted steel fin plates minimising the requirements for expensive bespoke fixings.

Completed Project