Leading washroom
designer, manufacturer and installer, Washroom Washroom has created a bright
and colourful new changing area as part of an office refurbishment project in
the heart of London.
Devonshire Square is a
vibrant estate tucked between the City and Shoreditch, offering an exciting,
architecturally varied campus with 630,000 sq ft of office space, shops, homes,
restaurants and bars.
The five acre campus
is home to 12 buildings including a mix of refurbished and reconfigured
Georgian warehouses, townhouses, and modern developments with Devonshire Square
itself set around a collection of original 18th-century East India warehouses
and a covered piazza-style courtyard.
Washroom Washroom
recently worked alongside Collins Construction and John Robertson architects as
part of a refurbishment project at Devonshire Square which saw the team create
a new cycle centre to cater for those who choose to walk or cycle into work on
the Devonshire Square Estate.
The eye-catching new
changing area and bike storage facility features Washroom’s Forza solid grade
laminate lockers with key operated locks to provide a secure storage solution
for office workers. Manufactured from hardwearing 12mm solid grade laminate doors
and aluminium bodies with solid laminate shelves and ventilation holes, the
Forza range guarantees exceptional strength and durability and is available in
a wide choice of colours.
Washroom utilised a
range of high pressure laminate colours from Sonae for the locker doors to
create the distinctive eye-catching design, ‘Pearl White’ used for the majority
of the lockers with a range of three accent colours; ‘Blue Paradiso’; ‘Jade’ and
‘Lemon Green’ picked out against the white in evenly spaced vertical stripes.
The changing area also
features Washroom’s freestanding island Legato bench units manufactured with
solid grade laminate slats and back rest in the same ‘Pearl White’ shade from
Sonae. Legato benches comprises an aluminium support construction with profiled
seating options and a complementary hook rail. The back rest on the island unit
is generally manufactured from the same material as the seat. In addition to
the island units in the main changing area, Washroom also installed the same
‘Pearl White’ wall-mounted Legato benching units in the combined changing and
shower cubicles.
The Washroom team
designed and installed its Arpeggio Corian trough-style vanity units within the
changing area as part of the project. Manufactured in the crisp ‘Designer
White’ colour with inset square sink areas and integrated waste bins and
wall-mounted taps, the vanity units fit seamlessly with the sleek changing area
design.
Trevor Bowers,
director at Washroom Washroom said: “Providing shower and changing areas is
becoming increasingly important for offices and is something we’ve seen an
increase in over recent years. This project is an excellent example of how
colour can be used to create a unique space. Just a small pop of colour against
the white lockers, benching, Corian vanities and tiling is very effective.”
