Leith Commercial Space
The comprehensive refurbishment of an existing commercial premises in Leith, most recently used as a vehicle repair workshop, to form a light-filled, robust, thermally efficient space suitable for a wide range of uses.
The most public change to the building is the new façade, which has a simple palette of metal cladding, with a large weathering steel sliding door, to provide a robust façade to an active lane of car and motorcycle repair workshops. Combined with the new roof, the façade and linings essentially provides the building with a new insulated jacket.
Internally, the material palette is kept simple, with a hardwearing terrazzo floor suitable for taking vehicles across, timber wall linings that conceal a kitchenette and WC, compressed wood fibre panels lining the walls, and the existing roof joists retained and painted white, with new roof lights above to bring light deep into the space.
Sectors: Commercial, Refurbishment, Industrial