AJ Small Projects Shortlist - Part 2
Hattie Hartman introduces the second part of the shortlist, including those vying for the sustainability award
Shortlisted projects
Denizen Sauna, Åland by Denizen Works + Friends (2011) Cost: £3,465. Constructed on a holiday island between Finland and Sweden in just nine days.
Coed Gwern Bird Hide, Machynlleth by CAT Professional Diploma Students (2011) Cost: £1,500. All the timber for this student-built project was sawn and processed within 500 metres of the site.
Times Eureka Pavilion, Richmond, Surrey by NEX (2011) Cost: £70,000. The design was developed using algorithms which replicate leaf capillaries.
House and Office, 1 West Annandale Street, Edinburgh by Tim Bayman Architecture (2011) Cost: £73,559. Renovation that restores natural light to a building which had remained in the shadows since its conversion to residential use in 1984.
The Lanes by Mole Architects, Cambridge (2011) Cost: £114,000. This larch-clad extensuion transformed an unprepossessing 1960s bungalow in Cambridgeshire.
Ecclesall Woods Container Retreat, Sheffield by Sheffield School of Architecture Live Project (2011) Cost: £1,150. The project disguises a large storage container while creating a teaching space ontop of it.
Lammas, Cley-next-the-Sea by Hudson Architects (2010) Cost: £185,000. Extension to a 1960s two-bedroom house.
Jay Mews, London by Theis+Khan (2011) Cost: 245,000. Refurbishment to extend and modernise an existing first-floor flat in a mews in west London
Blundells Avenue Housing, Devon by Mitchell Taylor Workshop (2011) Cost: £180,000. Designed and built for £60,000 each these three homes are intended to show there is an alternative to developer estate housing.
DRI DRI _ SML, London by Elips Design (2011) Cost: £12,500. Pop-up Italian ice-cream stall in the front room of St Martins Lane Hotel, London.
Wilberforce Annex, London by Jonathan Tuckey Design (2011) Cost: £135,000. Creche and after-school centre designed so that it could be bult by a local builder and joiner with minimal use of heavy machinery.
OSA/Merzen, Manchester by Office for Subversive Architecture (2011) Cost: £21,000. Installation at Manchester's CUBE Gallery based on artist Kurt Schwitters' 'Merz' collage technique, in which he rearranged collected objects such as paper, timber and wire.
