Lindsay Road is a proposed development of 35 new homes for sale on the former Deerlands School site in Parson’s Cross, Sheffield. The architecturally distinguished new development is commissioned by Great Places, a well-established housing association. The scheme organises the houses as a series of terraces arranged around a large public garden. Planting, variations in paving texture and colour and other elements mediate between the houses and the park to form a pedestrian orientated homezone. The design is aiming to achieve the ambitious targets of: Eco-Homes Very Good rating, 10% of energy supplied by renewable sources and CABE Design for Life Silver standard. The scheme is due to be submitted for planning shortly.

Fat won a competition to design a two storey building as part of the Paradise Street Development Area scheme in Liverpool city centre. The Pavilion will be built within the newly renovated Church Yard Arcade.

The design introduces an intriguing and delightful new building into the Church Yard space, using references that include ornamental and decorative street furniture as well as the tiled and patterned facades of the Victorian buildings of Liverpool. Our approach has been to design a building within a building, distinct from its surroundings and acting as a gateway or landmark to the new development.

The facade is expressed as a decorative tiled screen and the series of facets along it alter the buildings interior spaces and provide niches for seating and views into Church Yard from the first floor café and ground floor retail units. Shop fronts are as large as possible and all windows are tall and vertical in aspect. Either ends of the ‘screen’ diminish to lower points to make a comfortable junction between the arcade and the pavilion. At the south end a sense of activity from the café terrace is visible into the arcade below.

Completion date: August 2008

42 Hoxton Square, London, 2008

KK Outlet is a multifunctional office combining workspace, gallery area and shop for the Amsterdam based communications agency KesselsKramer at 42 Hoxton Square.

Various individual rooms are arranged consecutively along the length of the Outlet and sliced through diagonally to enclose fragments of their interiors behind a full length plywood wall, leaving the remaining half as an open gallery space. From within the timber wall, an elevation of a factory mounted on industrial castors can swing out to subdivide the space and theatrical timber curtains fold back to reveal a decadent red kitchen interior. Almost as though the interiors, and activities that take place within them have been crated up in Holland and shipped over to Hoxton.

Each interior has a distinct character but can be used for anything. You might want to work on a Victorian chaises longues in the kitchen, or spend some time in the clinically tiled shop, perhaps sat on the steps in the timber lined warehouse is where inspiration will strike. Mobile furniture units are surgically dissected from each room type and set free to roam around the main gallery space, providing an environment that is adaptable to the multiple needs of the Outlet’s daily usage and responsive to its evolving requirements.

Fat were appointed by Tibus Partnership Ltd in 2007 to design a mixed-use tower on an extremely small brown-field site at the southern end of Mile End Park, London. The landmark building is conceived as a ‘green gateway’ to Mile End Park. A vertical garden on the east elevation integrates the building into the park and vice versa. The proposed 19-storey mixed-use scheme comprises of 27 mixed tenure residential units, together with a ground floor restaurant/café.
To address the requirement of the brief for the highest possible level of sustainability the design exceeds the requirements for the Code for Sustainable Homes Level 4, as produced by the Department for Communities and Local Government 2006. In addition to this all residential units have been designed to meet or exceed the principles set out in the Lifetime Homes Standard. The scheme will be submitted for planning shortly.

'Heroes of The Invisible' is a vase formed from the profiles of Mies van der Rohe and Marconi, two figures who explored the idea of the invisible in very different ways. The 70 cm high vase is formed in the gap between their profiles. It has a high gloss baked-on black finish.

The vase is available for purchase.

The Villa, part of the Heerlijkheid Hoogvliet, is well underway. Completion is expected in Dec. 07

FATs design for the Rotterdam Photo Bienale integrated a diverse range of work from large scale photographs, to video, interactive and installation based work within two sites - an empty warehouse and the gallery spaces of the Netherlands Foto Museum.

The concept for the exhibition design is located somewhere between a trade show and an allotment garden. Each artwork is displayed in its own singular unit which are arranged around a communal central areas. The units create their own specific atmosphere and environment in response to the work that is shown. The units take on various characteristics which include ‘white cube’ gallery spaces, office spaces, and cool loft interiors amongst others.

The exhibition uses space and the dullness of basic construction as a way to create gaps between each work. This lack of design is not abstract in the way a white cube gallery is abstract, but rather it is an unfinished construction, which, like an unfinished sentence whose sentiment in not yet fully formed. This lack of completeness leaves the space within the exhibition for the artists work to make diverse statements and experiences.

The concept draws on ways in which architecture creates experiences while leaving the edges raw and in full view as an open ended narrative

FAT were asked to develop a design for the temporary home for collections belonging to the Kuwait National Museum during the main sites re-development. The site for the temporary museum is an early 20th century hospital. The design challenge was integrate displays and information within the existing fabric of the building.

The brief comprised gallery spaces, temporary exhibition areas, a shop and a cafe. The design principles took reference from materials and patterns from the museums collection of Islamic and Pre-Islamic art and objects. These were filterd through modern techniques such as laser cutting.