AOC
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AOC
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AOC was established in 2003 by a group of London-based designers who ‘decided they wanted to ask the same questions’. Not exclusively concerned with architecture, they claim to be able to ‘design you a home, write you a book or build you a city – or design you a book, build you a home and write you a city’.
Current projects include housing, live/work studios, schools, roofscapes, follies, urban board games and a book on pigeons. AOC was included in The Observer’s ‘Best and Brightest 2005’. The practice took third place in the competition to design a new London home for the Architecture Foundation and was recently selected for the Elephant and Castle architects housing panel.
Private House
AOC has designed a folly for a film-maker overlooking a stream at the bottom of his garden. The room is supported on a forest of old telegraph poles, some of which are planted in the stream. The ensemble of poles relates to the grove of ash trees that the folly faces.
Access is at the rear from the steep bank of the stream. External top-hung plywood shutters are raised and lowered from Heath Robinson-like masts that deploy precisely machined yacht components. The shutters are lined with William Morris wallpaper, an abstracted interpretation of the view outside.
