Faggionato Apartment
Anne Faggionato and
Mungo Park
London 1999
Anne Faggionato and
Mungo Park
London 1999
The Piper Building was originally a complex of laboratories built by the
Gas Board in the 1960s in the heart of a southwest suburb of London overlooking the
river Thames. An astute developer acquired the building when the Gas
Board moved out and converted it into a series of shells for individual
apartments.
The raw space of the Faggionato Apartment comprised two of these units, together forming a L-shaped
area the size of two or three conventional London houses. The design exploits the height of the shells, creating a mezzanine
level - in fact two mezzanine decks, one for the parents and another
for children - whilst also leaving extensive areas of double-height
space.