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Peel Place Town Houses, Earls Court

Building for Favor Well Ltd in West London, England – design by Dexter Moren Associates Architects

26 Aug 2016

Peel Place Development

Design: Dexter Moren Associates (DMA) Architects

Location: Peel Place, Lillie Road, near Earls Court, west London, UK

Nine contemporary family-sized town houses

A NEW LONDON VERNACULAR BY DEXTER MOREN ASSOCIATES

Dexter Moren Associates (DMA) has unveiled Peel Place, a new £5 million development for Singaporean developer Favor Well Ltd, consisting of nine contemporary family-sized town houses aimed at the private rented market. This small-scale, design-led scheme has transformed a constricted 2059 sqm (0.21Ha) brownfield site near Earls Court, with light filled rooms flowing naturally onto outside terraces and gardens, perfect for families and entertaining.

The design rethinks the London town house, deliberately moving away from homes with rear gardens. Staggered forms and setbacks, stacked outdoor spaces and enclosed courtyards maximise direct access to the outside, both in terms of daylight and physical connection.

Peel Place responds to the need for larger, family or extended family-sized, houses in the private rented sector, where the trend is for one and two bedroom flats.

Herbert Lui, Director, Dexter Moren Associates:

“This is a rare example of a development which provides new spacious family homes for rent in the heart of London that also have the benefit of private outdoor space and off-street parking. We have been lucky enough to work with a client, who has been supportive of our innovative solutions and contemporary architectural style.”

The development includes a new street frontage of two houses on Lillie Road with another seven houses forming a terrace behind, perpendicular to the road. The terrace fronts onto a ‘mews-style’ space with a shared access and thoughtful landscaping, whilst the Lillie Road frontage is set back to allow for front gardens and vehicle parking similar to other properties in the street.

The external facades offer a play of high quality materials, elegantly proportioned shapes, and protruding and recessed planes to provide a strong rhythm and unified architectural expression across the mews whilst clearly identifying each property as an individual home. DMA have deliberately avoided a pastiche of the various surrounding architectural styles, combining simple compositions with traditional materials and elements to add a distinctly modern chapter in the history and development of Lillie Road.

Inside the properties, DMA’s design for a full height atrium stairwell is one of the stand-out elements, linking together the internal and external spaces of the house in a light-filled central core. In the open plan kitchen and dining area stylish but hard wearing quartz black floor tiles flow seamlessly between the internal rooms and the outside terrace, with the floor to ceiling doors and glazing giving uninterrupted views between the spaces. In the bathroom, DMA chose bold anthracite grey for the floor and wall tiles, lightened by the curvaceous geometrical designs and buttery hues of the tiles on the features walls.

Dexter Moren Associates
We are Dexter Moren Associates, an award-winning architecture and interior design studio based in London. Our 50-strong team provides an individual approach to each project. We are passionate, commercially astute and committed to producing beautiful buildings that respond to location and context. Over almost 25 years, Dexter Moren Associates has established a world renowned reputation in the hotel sector. With a design-led ethos of ‘creating places people want to stay in’, we have taken our hospitality experience into other sectors with a particular focus on residential. Recent projects in the sector range from complex brownfield site redevelopments to high-end multi-use schemes, from flats to family houses, student and family housing to serviced apartments.