Redbridge Welcome Centre by Peter Barber Architects
Slideshow: London studio Peter Barber Architects has completed a centre for drug and alcohol rehabilitation in Ilford, northeast London.
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The four-storey Redbridge Welcome Centre takes the form of several irregularly stacked volumes, with an uppermost level that cantilevers out towards the road.
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As well as providing drop-in facilities on its lower levels, the building contains temporary accommodation for homeless people upstairs.
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Each of the ten en suite rooms faces a private garden that the building wraps around at the back.
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The architects designed a similar centre in south London a few years ago - take a look here.
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Photography is by Morley von Sternberg.
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Here's a few more details from Peter Barber Architects:
Redbridge Welcome Centre is a new community and homeless project housed in a spectacular state of the art building on a prominent site in Ilford.
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The Welcome Centre houses drug and alcohol units, training rooms and drop-in facilities in dramatic double height spaces at ground and 1st floor level.
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Light and airy residential accommodation is provided in 10 en-suite rooms at 2nd and 3rd floor.
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Spaces are flooded with light from fully glazed facades and all rooms have uninterrupted views into a secluded garden at the rear.
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The building is composed of a series of folded planes forming a continuous ribbon of structure from pavement entrance ramp to roof.
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