An abandoned plot in Shoreditch, East London has been transformed into a 220sqm new build family home by architects Urban Mesh Design ltd. Designed by and for practice director, Oliver Lazarus, and his family, Volcano House is complete with four bedrooms, ground floor studio, a series of home offices and garden terraces and a stunning facade of bespoke ?Black Volcano? brickwork.

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Architects: Urban Mesh Design

Location: Londres, United Kingdom

Area: 220.0 m2

Project Year: 2018

Photographs: Charles Hosea

Structural Engineers: Form SD

M+E: Prospero Projects Ltd

Party Walls: Osei Design

Shell Contractor: Get Turner Ltd
Fit Out Contractor: Self Build

Joinery: C&G Furniture Design

Metalwork: Redhouse Forge

© Charles Hosea

Text description provided by the architects. An abandoned plot in Shoreditch, East London has been transformed into a 220sqm new build family home by architects Urban Mesh Design ltd. Designed by and for practice director, Oliver Lazarus, and his family, Volcano House is complete with four bedrooms, ground floor studio, a series of home offices and garden terraces and a stunning facade of bespoke ?Black Volcano? brickwork.

© Charles Hosea

Previously an open yard to the rear of a grocery shop, the site had been vacant since 2008. Urban Mesh saw potential in a site shunned by other develop...