Track Record/Developer

Developer/Kensington & Chelsea/ Fire Station Plan

HEAT have been appointed by developers Fisher Land to carry out a feasibility and planning appraisal of the Chelsea Fire Station site in the Kings Road. Our fully developed scheme retains a full working fire station and incorporates 39 Residential units over four floors and 6000 sq ft of retail space.

Project 084

Won/25.03.06

Developer/Kensington & Chelsea/ Fire Station Conversion

HEAT were appointed to take part in a developer competition to redesign Chelsea Fire Station in the Kings Road.

The design incorporated a new rebuilt fire station clad in red glass with 31 apartments and three A1 Units based around a landscaped atrium with glass elevators. With a confined urban site you have to be inventive and make spaces work hard, so each apartment is provided with a “winter garden”; glazed balconies which can be closed in winter and fully opened to become open terraces in summer.

The site is on a corner overlooking an open space, so the design has two primary façades.

Project 084

Won/21.07.05

Developer/Hammersmith & Fulham/ Kings Road Mixed-Use Success

Planning consent has been granted by Hammersmith and Fulham Council for a four-storey new build 32,000 sq. ft. mixed-use development on the New Kings Road in West London for developer Starcrest Investments.

Designed by HEAT Architecture, the consent comes as result of over two years of detailed negotiations with the planning authority and local residents. The development, which is set within a highly sensitive conservation area, will be clearly visible when viewed across Eel Brook Common. It is surrounded on three sides by numerous private residences, some of which are listed.

The £6m proposal will provide nearly 8000sq.ft. of retail space along the 38 metre frontage, along with 13,600 sq. ft of offices and three penthouse apartments on the top floor. The loft style apartments make maximum use of north light with a full height glazed façade overlooking the Common. They will incorporate large domed rooflights set within the lightweight over-sailing roof canopy.

Project 043

Won/06.03.05

Developer/Islington/ Clerkenwell Warehouse Conversion

HEAT have obtained a valuable consent from the London Borough of Islington to convert a C19th warehouse of 25,000 sq ft in Clerkenwell into residential use. We created ten flats and three live-work units, and retained 4000 sq ft of B1 use, adding additional space at roof level. The flats were generously proportioned with high ceilings and floor to ceiling windows and provide genuine loft living in the city. The scheme was drawn up and planning obtained within four months of appointment.

Project 057

Won/04.04.03

Developer/Kensington & Chelsea/ Kensington Tower Block

A privately owned tower block in Notting Hill Gate required extensive upgrading and refurbishment and we were brought on board by the management committee to draw up feasibility plans for the refurbishment of the block. To defray the cost of the improvements we came up with proposals to create four additional penthouse flats at roof level and we proposed a partnership with a development company. The image above shows the exploded axonometric model that we used to help plan the duplex apartments.

Project 040

Won/05.12.02

Developer/Westminster/ Westbourne Grove New Build

HEAT have gained planning consent to rebuild a former design studio in fashionable Westbourne Grove. The front facade respects the stucco fronted villas in the surrounding streets, whilst the clever curved roof is designed to fit within rights-of-light constraints on this dense urban site whilst accommodating a new upper storey.

A double-height glass window divides the front window, allowing the front door to float in space and behind it a circulation space brings light deep into the plan.

Having secured consent for the rebuilding and the change of use, we subsequently negotiated planning consent for the excavation of a basement in this sensitive conservation area.

Project 021

Won/06.04.01