We’ve been asked by another architect to have a look at this them because we’re floorplanning experts.

It’s an office block in London that a developer wants to convert into residential use. There’s 240sqm gross internal area on a typical floor. Windows facing the street to the east, a line of columns, the main stairs and lift, and a second means of escape from the back.

Let’s look at mostly standard 1 beds first. These need to meet nationally described space standard of 50sqm.

On one here. The noise of the lift would be annoying to lets shield the bedroom from this by placing the bathroom here. Storage space next to it. Bedroom, maybe a run of kitchen at the back of the living room, then the dining area zones this off from the living room.

This remaining bit of space only has one window and this becomes a 37.5sqm studio flat. Bathroom and storage at the back, kitchen dining living space, the bedroom area in an alcove. Maybe you could curtain that off.

Come back for Part 2 and I’ll show you the rest!

So we’re converting this office to residential and in part 1 did the first two flats.

This next 1 bed is quite deep. If we have an opening with a sliding door you’d open up views to the other window. This could be a study / dressing zone for the bedroom. Bathroom and storage to the rear. Kitchen the other side. Dining and living at the front.

Then this one bed can have its bedroom to the back. Maybe I should have put the door the other side. Bathroom and storage in the centre. Kitchen in the centre too then a nice living area at the front.

So that’s 3 50sqm 1 beds, plus 1 37.5sqm studio, so 187.5sqm or in developer speak 2018sqft per typical floor. That’s just shy of 80% net to gross, which isn’t too shabby for a conversion where things like windows and stair locations are set.

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