Pimlico · Riverside apartment

Crown Reach

A compact riverside apartment in Pimlico, London, where moving partitions and birch-faced plywood joinery allow the layout to adapt to changing needs. Sliding and folding partitions work alongside built-in and movable joinery to make more of the footprint. Rooms open into connected spaces or divide into separate ones, held together by a consistent material palette.

Crown Reach — the apartment

The concept

Designed to transform

The moving elements were integral to the design from the outset. Space planning, partitions and joinery were developed together, with each configuration considered before construction.

Design visualisation Design visualisation
Design visualisation Design visualisation

The transforming space

Walls that move the plan

The three-bedroom apartment can be configured as four bedrooms by dividing the principal bedroom with the movable partitions and joinery. This flexibility allows the home to accommodate different needs within the same footprint.

The room dividing — 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
A second divider — 1 2 3 4 5
The bed, stowed The bed, down

The spaces

The finished rooms

Birch-faced plywood runs throughout the finished rooms. Carefully detailed joinery keeps the interior coherent as the layout changes.

Living space Living space Kitchen
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Detail Detail

The Wet Room

Compact and considered

A compact wet room, finished to the same standard as the rest of the apartment, with careful planning and detailing making efficient use of the space.

Wet room
Wet room detail Wet room detail
Location
Pimlico, London
Project
Apartment interior design and space planning
Status
Completed
Layout
Three bedrooms, adaptable to four
Materials
Birch-faced plywood
Key features
Sliding and folding partitions · built-in and movable joinery · flexible room configurations
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