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![Both spaces feature tall ceilings with light entering from the sides and above, creating a simple and somber atmosphere. Exposed timber beams add warmth and structural clarity to the design.]()
![The main building forms a mortuary complex comprising the courtroom, coroner’s office, and associated facilities, while the secondary building provides offices and prayer spaces, both arranged in a chessboard-like plan that balances formality with quiet reflection.]()
![The scheme settles into the fabric between the Nash Terraces and Regent’s Park Estate, retrofitted into existing brick walls and assimilated into the surrounding architecture, with a forced-perspective doorway embedded into Chester Terrace.]()
![Understanding the complex geometries involved, the proposal is divided into two distinct sides: new and retrofitted, taking cues from the surrounding context to inform the façade and mirrored building arrangement.]()
![Located on the same site, the project addresses loneliness, social inequality, and limited park access by cutting through buildings to create a route that links estate residents with Nash Terrace inhabitants. The passage offers views into the park and fosters moments of connection between both communities.]()
Regent’s Park Coroner’s Court
Regent’s Park Coroner’s Court quietly settles into the fabric between the Nash Terraces and the Regent’s Park Estate. It is not imposed but found, retrofitted into the old walls and stitched into the rhythm of existing housing. New brick and stone forms emerge where needed, silent and measured. The court, mortuary, prayer rooms and offices serve both the city and the soul.
This is a building of necessity and stillness. It connects east to west not through spectacle but through weight and silence: gardens, passages and spaces for reflection unfold with restraint. Public life, long absent from these secluded grounds, returns with quiet dignity.
Materials speak plainly: brick, patient and enduring; stone, where the structure must carry meaning. No gesture is wasted. The court does not face the park in grandeur but turns towards Albany Street, acknowledging the estate and the people. A civic presence not in dominance but in care.
Interior View of the Courtroom and Abbey
Both spaces feature tall ceilings with light entering from the sides and above, creating a simple and somber atmosphere. Exposed timber beams add warmth and structural clarity to the design.
Ground Floor Plan and Section
The main building forms a mortuary complex comprising the courtroom, coroner’s office, and associated facilities. The secondary building provides offices and prayer spaces, arranged in a way that balances formality with quiet reflection.
Axonometric Drawing of the Full Scheme
The scheme settles into the fabric between the Nash Terraces and Regent’s Park Estate, retrofitted into existing brick walls and assimilated into the surrounding architecture, with a forced-perspective doorway embedded into Chester Terrace.
Physical Model
Understanding the complex geometries involved, the proposal is divided into two distinct sides: new and retrofitted, taking cues from the surrounding context to inform the façade and mirrored building arrangement.
Project One: 'Windows of Opportunity'
The project radically opens up a string of socioeconomically divided buildings, focusing not only on interrogating the structural proposition, but on the connectivity of residents whose lives are impacted.
The Bartlett
Summer Show 2025
26 June – 13 July
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