Location
Harbour warehouse
Year
2024
Client
Atelier Marin
Scope
Architecture, interiors, workplace strategy
Duration
16 months
Site
Listed harbour warehouse
A net store by the harbour, opened to north light and given back to working hands.
A former net store turned into a design studio. Brick, steel and north light, with the harbour on the doorstep.
The warehouse kept its brick shell, its timber trusses and the long doors that once opened onto the quay. Inside, a steel mezzanine adds space without touching the old walls, and north-facing rooflights give the studio an even light from morning to evening.
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Concrete balconies of the old warehouse
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Vertical fins on the quay facade
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The studio floor in north light
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From brief to building.
The question we were asked, how we answered it, and what changed once people moved in.
01
The challenge
A listed warehouse with a leaking roof and poor daylight, and a client who needed room for forty people, a workshop and a public gallery.
02
Our approach
We repaired the brick shell and the trusses rather than replacing them, inserted a free-standing steel mezzanine and opened north-facing rooflights along the ridge. The quay doors were restored so the workshop can spill onto the harbour.
03
The outcome
The studio moved in on schedule and uses 40 percent less energy than its previous office. The ground-floor gallery now hosts exhibitions open to the harbour community.
Desks under one roof
Energy use versus the previous office
Original trusses retained
Old shell, new floor.
A steel mezzanine stands free of the historic walls, while north rooflights bring an even light deep into the plan.
The warehouse block from the harbour
Kept, repaired, added.
What was there was repaired; what is new is honest about being new.
“We wanted a place that makes people want to build things. Every morning it does exactly that.”
Noah Marin, founder, Atelier Marin
Architecture
ARCHEA
Interior design
Lea Fischer
Structure
Atelier Statik
Landscape
Harbour Planting Co.
Builder
Quayside Restoration
Photography
Studio Lumen
