Loose fit and modern methods of construction at Victory Plaza
This pair of towers demonstrates flexible apartments capable of supporting a range of uses that adapt to future change to preserve embodied energy – built safely, quietly and quickly using 90% prefabricated elements.
In our masterplan for London’s East Village (formerly the 2012 Athletes’ Village), six towers form a crescent south of the 2012 Games buildings. Each tower is designed with a standard chassis with varying contextually responsive elevations. Victory Plaza is the first completed phase containing 482 apartments and was designed and delivered by our practice. Two stone- and aluminium-bronze-clad towers are flanked by 9-storey podium buildings faced with hand-laid brick that relate in scale and texture to the existing Athletes Village buildings. Ground floors are occupied by rental company offices, restaurants and lobbies, leading to communal facilities at second-floor level and gardens on podium roofs.
The scheme’s innovative sustainable features include:
- Significant prefabrication: cladding, precast columns, core walls and slabs, MEP service risers and pods were installed from an enclosed vertical rising four-level ‘jump factory’ which completed each storey in 55 hours
- Flexibility to meet future change: Loose-fit floorplates, completely free of service risers/structure from core to external walls allowing freedom of apartment mix or changes of use – for instance to workplace or student rooms
- Internalising external space from windy balconies: creating more generous apartments with space for homeworking or sharing – invaluable during Covid lockdowns
Victory Plaza
Jump factories
Interior jump factory
Flexible tower plan and alternative apartment layouts
Flexible tower with office and apartment layouts
View up towards the jump factory
Jump factories
Jump factories
Loose fit and modern methods of construction at Victory Plaza
This pair of towers demonstrates flexible apartments capable of supporting a range of uses that adapt to future change to preserve embodied energy – built safely, quietly and quickly using 90% prefabricated elements.
In our masterplan for London’s East Village (formerly the 2012 Athletes’ Village), six towers form a crescent south of the 2012 Games buildings. Each tower is designed with a standard chassis with varying contextually responsive elevations. Victory Plaza is the first completed phase containing 482 apartments and was designed and delivered by our practice. Two stone- and aluminium-bronze-clad towers are flanked by 9-storey podium buildings faced with hand-laid brick that relate in scale and texture to the existing Athletes Village buildings. Ground floors are occupied by rental company offices, restaurants and lobbies, leading to communal facilities at second-floor level and gardens on podium roofs.
The scheme’s innovative sustainable features include:
- Significant prefabrication: cladding, precast columns, core walls and slabs, MEP service risers and pods were installed from an enclosed vertical rising four-level ‘jump factory’ which completed each storey in 55 hours
- Flexibility to meet future change: Loose-fit floorplates, completely free of service risers/structure from core to external walls allowing freedom of apartment mix or changes of use – for instance to workplace or student rooms
- Internalising external space from windy balconies: creating more generous apartments with space for homeworking or sharing – invaluable during Covid lockdowns
