🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 Technique

Artful green

Clerkenwell’s first timber building, Technique is the pinnacle of thoughtful, human-centric design. It represents the potential for sustainability to be an art, rather than duty.

📍Location

London, EC1

🏢Building Details

• Completed Q3 2021

• 6-storeys, 72,000 sq ft: 5,000 sq ft affordable space dedicated to SMEs

• Workplace for 850+ people

👷🏾‍♀️Developer & Contractor

• Jacob Loftus – Founder & CEO @ General Projects

• Rob Joyce – Development Director @ GRAHAM Group

✍️Architect & Designers

• Oliver Bayliss – Managing Director @ Buckley Gray Yeoman

• Adam Whitlock Wood – Associate Director @ Buckley Gray Yeoman

• Gary Wisbey – Senior Architect @ Buckley Gray Yeoman

• Andrea Trimarchi – Head @ Studio FormaFantasma

• Simone Farresin – Head @ Studio FormaFantasma

🌱Sustainability

• EPC A + BREEAM Excellent = rare achievement for a refurb

• Redeveloped from two 1960s buildings (decommissioned bank + gin distillery) – minimal demolition with original structure largely retained

• CLT structure built from sustainably accredited wood + super-performing glue = 43% reduction in CO2 emissions

• Structural elements prefabricated off-site + assembled on-site = 70% reduction in site traffic

• 21+ tonnes of waste diverted from landfill: repurposed by hand into delicate bricks to clad outside of building

🥦 Wellbeing

• 1st floor multi-purpose gallery space with 7m-high ceilings – ideal communal space for private events or yoga classes

• 10,000 sq ft green roof provides a natural haven to socialise + relax

• Thoughtfully designed cycle parking, showers + lockers to accommodate 110 users at peak times

• Outstanding natural daylight throughout the building

🎈Bonus feature

The striking lobby is Technique’s focal point. Formafantasma has created a contemporary re-imagining of Milan’s famous mid-century entrance halls. Using their own ‘excinere’ luxurious porcelain tiles – glazed with volcanic ash from Mount Etna 🌋.

🔗 Check it out

https://www.generalprojects.com/portfolio/technique/