An undulating crown of black and brown steelwork covers The Fortunate Membership bar, which structure studio vPPR has positioned on high of the historic Stables Market in Camden, London.
Designed by vPPR for developer LabTech, the rooftop bar and restaurant curve across the northwestern fringe of the Nineteenth-century steady constructing.
It sits alongside the Grade II*-listed Horse Hospital that, together with the outdated stables, now homes Camden’s well-known markets in addition to varied arts and membership areas.
“The present enclave of brick buildings was created to service the Victorian railway that sprang up in Camden because it turned a mecca for the transportation of products,” defined vPPR.
“This additionally meant that lots of of horses have been wanted to assist with the hustle and bustle of nineteenth-century life, and subsequently the stables and Horse Hospital turned their residence,” it continued.
Accessed by way of a former horse ramp that sweeps across the japanese aspect of the constructing, The Fortunate Membership offers house for 130 diners overlooking the markets beneath.
The bar and restaurant are framed by a construction of V-shaped helps in black steelwork, drawing from the materiality of the historic website and echoing its industrial character.
Its cover creates a wide range of completely different circumstances for the seating areas, contrasting each open and clear-roofed sections with extra enclosed areas, whereas additionally offering help for lights, audio system and planters.
“The V-shaped metalwork that helps the roof construction acts as a playful reference to the triangular openings in stables which are used to permit horses to poke their heads out for feeding,” mentioned the studio.
“Between the openings, a collection of vertical grills take their cues from the historic Horse Hospital,” it continued. “Sculptural semicircular peaks on high of the roof are shaped from the form of the one porthole within the gable finish of the Horse Hospital additionally.”
The bar itself is completed in gray tiles with a curved marble countertop, forming a part of a pared-back strategy to the inside that additionally contains easy marble-effect tables and woven rattan chairs.
Externally, a skinny strip of black corrugated steel has been used to clad the cover, creating a way of continuity with the tough, industrial character of the present brickwork beneath.
Structure studio vPPR was based in London by Tatiana von Preussen, Catherine Pease and Jessica Reynolds in 2009.
A variety of its current tasks have concerned responding to historic constructions, together with the conversion of a warehouse in Shoreditch into outlets and flats and the transformation of a 130-year-old retailer in Surrey into a restaurant.
The pictures is by Lewis Ronald.
