A Room for London

Our design is based on the simplest of the platonic solids - the tetrahedron. There is something very naïve and yet powerful about the form. During the process of working with it we realised, that as a primal geometry, it has wherever possible avoided being cajoled into becoming architecture. Like symmetry, it did not want to be tampered with. It is at the same time beautiful and frustrating. We hope that this is something that the guests will appreciate too, and that it will therefore be a wholly memorable, if not a slightly unnerving experience. After all, when does one ever have the opportunity to stay in an 8m high tetrahedron (internal height) with a panoramic view of the river Thames? The frame of the tetrahedron stands 16m tall with three sides each measuring 19m, its size is intentionally grand and deceptive. The supporting space-frame structure constructed of 75mm diameter gold anodized aluminium tubes forms a room of exactly 45m2 in its centre that is enclosed with glazed or insulated aluminium cladding panels. The dimension of the triangular module has been determined to allow a human to pass through it unimpeded.

Together with Samuel Penn and Neil Gillespie