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10.11.2018_12:51 PM

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Integrated marble sink. Apartment in Bryanston Square by DRDH Architects. © Christoph Rokitta.

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Apartment in Bryanston Square by DRDH Architects

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DRDH ARCHITECTS

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KVOSIN Hotel

Reykjavík, Iceland

DRDH Architects

http://www.drdharchitects.co.uk/

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DRDH Architects

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Stormen library, Bodø, Norway

DRDH Architects 

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DRDH architects: St. Martin’s Cathedral, Ypres, Belgium; 1st Prize in Invited Competition 2015

The proposal provides an infrastructure of stair, lift and toilets that serves four vaulted public rooms across two levels in the St Martin’s Cathedral. Its form and siting addresses the ruined cloister that adjoins them. Following the historicist reconstruction of the Cathedral in the 1920’s and the restoration of the surrounding city that followed, these crumbling ruins constitute the remaining evidence of the wartime destruction of Ypres. Recognising both their importance and fragility, our building stabilises and incorporates them into its structure, whilst allowing them to be clearly read. Its plan reinterprets a fragment of the original circulation system, establishing a legible visitor route from the nave that partially redefines the cloister and reinforces the spatial character of both the lapidarium and the sunken court that registers a former interior. An external brick barrel vaulted space establishes a point of orientation overlooking the site while a proposed second phase, envisaged as part of the wider landscape plan for the cathedral precinct, creates a continuous protective enclosure for the lapidarium and its artefacts by completing the cloister edge.The building’s primary construction is of masonry with secondary timber elements. Vaults, brick relieving arches, concrete columns and gargoyles rhyme with the traditional brick and stone construction of the Cathedral, yet recall in their form the Classical rather than Gothic character of the lost building. These elements allow it to be understood simultaneously as both a fragment and an integral part of the larger body, equally part of history and of its own time.

Client: Kerkfabriek Sint-Maarten | Area: 200m2  | Construction Cost: £435,000