Yardhouse in East London by Assemble Studios.

Project name: Yardhouse
Location: Stratford, London
Design team & construction: Assemble UK

Handmade concrete tiles give a colourful scaly facade to this collaborative workplace building designed by Assemble for artists and designers in east London. “Yardhouse demonstrates that it is possible to cost-effectively build new creative workspace, providing an attractive and flexible work environment at a very modest budget,” explains Lewis Jones, one of Assemble’s founders.

Yardhouse was built with a simple wooden post and beam structure and a basic off-the-shelf cladding system, but the architects hand made their own colourful tiles to give the facade a more unique identity. “Whilst many decisions regarding the footprint, orientation, layout and decorative cladding were site specific, the colours are placed at random – for each batch different amounts of pigment were added, decided by whoever was making tiles at the time.”

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[Images courtesy of Assemble.]