A rooftop garden on top of a modern brick building, featuring solar panels, trees, plants, and seating areas with people walking and biking on the street below.

EES

Providing a new home and archive for the Egyptian Exploration Society

Architect: Studio Becoming
Budget: £2 million
In Design

Renders: Studio Becoming

The Society has been funding and leading archaeological exploration and research in Egypt for over 150 years. In that time they have amassed an impressive library of books and extremely fragile papyri.

This project rehomes their full archive plus offices and public exhibition spaces in a single home for the first time in their history, radically transforming the 3 Bloomsbury mews houses they have inhabited and owned for 60 years.

The scheme carefully considers and keeps all of the existing fabric that we can, whilst inserting appropriate materials and structures for the higher priority archive areas, all behind a refurbished and retained facade.

The new story matches its neighbours and provides a single residential unit as well as more working space for the Society.

Digital rendering of a mixed-use building with commercial space on the ground floor and residential or rooftop garden above, surrounded by other buildings in an urban setting.

“The scheme carefully considers and keeps all of the existing fabric that we can, whilst inserting appropriate materials and structures for the higher priority archive areas, all behind a refurbished and retained facade.”

A blank white page.
A cozy, modern living space with a dining table where children and adults are gathered, surrounded by indoor plants, artwork, and decorative vases, with natural sunlight illuminating the room.
A modern office or meeting room with white chairs around a table and a large potted plant. In the background, a wall opens to another room with sculptures, artwork, and a woman and a man talking.
Interior of a modern building with two women, one in a wheelchair, sitting and standing near a staircase, with large windows, plants, and contemporary furniture.
Interior view of a modern home featuring a staircase, a tall decorative curtain, and a dining area with a table and chairs. There are plants and natural light coming through the windows.