This is a new hostel, for recovering alcoholics, that doesn't feel like an institution. We divided a difficult site into seven individual houses, two for six people sharing and the rest containing 23 bedsit flats and communal facilities, arranged around garden courts and linked by a walkway. It became so popular the clients asked us to add another block of six bedsit flats.
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Client
Contractor
Completion date
Survey & Design's service
Hexagon Housing Association / Equinox
Bonds Builders
2005
Architect / Employer's agent / Planning supervisor
Survey & Design Partnership
70 Cowcross Street
London EC1M 6EJ
Tel 020 7639 6255
mail@surveydesign.co.uk
photograph: John Whitfield