Studio Ben Allen is a multidisciplinary design practice. We undertake a wide range of projects at the intersection of architecture, design and art. Each of our projects has at its core an open collaborative dialogue between participants and disciplines, from concept to production, in order to create unique and engaging spatial sequences.
BEN ALLEN
Studio Ben Allen was founded in 2014 by architect Ben Allen and is built on over 15 years experience collaborating with designers, architects, artists and other creative disciplines. Having studied architecture at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Ben worked for Fletcher Priest Architects and Jonathan Tuckey Design before moving to Berlin. There he worked at Studio Olafur Eliasson for almost a decade, on projects including Harpa, the Icelandic National Concert Hall, Reykjavik, which won the Mies van der Rohe European Union architecture prize in 2013-14, Your Rainbow Panorama at the Aros Museum, Aarhus. From 2009 he co-founded and collaborated with the collective KWY before relocating to London and founding Studio Ben Allen. Ben has also acted as a studio tutor at Oxford Brookes University and been a guest lecturer and critic at The Mackintosh School of Architecture, the Universität der Künste Berlin, Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art.
LOCATION: London, United Kingdom
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A Room in the Garden is part garden folly, part “other space”. It is intended to relieve the congestion of the urban home and provide a space for family members to work, play, read, sleep or to enjoy a moment of peace and quiet.
Designed for a flat in London’s Barbican Estate, the brief was to find space for a children’s bedroom within the existing layout of a one bedroom apartment, a workspace to enable working from home as well as to provide additional storage space.
