Hurlingham Sports Club

Extending an Edwin Luytens listed wall into additional facilities for a prestigious sports club

Architecture

London, UK

Area: 4100m2

This project to extend a high-end sports club to incorporate a new swimming pool, spa, restaurant and bar necessitated a response that accounted for the historical prestige of the location as well as a listed wall built by Sir Edwin Lutyens.

Taking the existing wall as the departure point for our design, an innovative brick façade negotiates the contours of the programme, dissolving into a lighter entity that simultaneously allows natural light to penetrate. Our solution blended the traditions of the historic sports club with a contemporary reinterpretation of a listed feature.

Les caractéristiques du terrain, allongé, étroit et formant pignon, guident le projet qui traduit l’équilibre entre exigences réglementaires, performances et modularités spatiales. Le projet exploite l’ensemble du linéaire de façade afin d’offrir en profondeur le maximum de lumière et de surface habitable. Les espaces “annexes” en pignon, circulation et jardin d’hiver, sont ainsi conçus en prolongement des logements.

La porosité est contrôlée par la peau active en membrane imprimée qui englobe façades et toiture suivant au plus juste le volume autorisé. Les exigences de vues, de ventilation et d’ensoleillement informent la densité du motif de la peau.

A vocabulary of bricks extend the original listed wall on site to house new sport facilities.

The existing wall designed by Sir Edwin Luytens remained unfinished for over half a century, enclosing utilitarian plant structures.

The encounter between classical outlines and contemporary flows.

The project exploits the facades to provide maximum daylight and habitable spaces in the depth of the floor plan. The constraints of views, ventilation and solar gain inform the density of the skin’s pattern.