RESIDENTIAL TOWER IN ROMFORD

A residential complex of 92 apartments arranged over 10 floors impinges on an urban void previously occupied by a vast level parking lot. The full rehabilitation of the nearby Hexagon House complex, with its recent conversion from an office block to a housing complex, has initiated a final transformation of the area aimed at residential purposes. This is the context for the new tower, conformed by compactly aggregated medium-small units, which nevertheless contribute to defining overall quality standards of interest: the composition by volumes arranged in tiers configures large terraced surfaces where greenery emerges as an element of the urban landscape, while the design of the facades with the alternation of window frames and cladding panels generates a variable rhythm and texture of strong visual interest, which attenuates the modular repetitiveness of the units and the planimetric symmetry of the layout. Each apartment has covered terraced surfaces that excavate the facade in depth and emphasize its plastic dimension.