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Casa Chips, 8 Storey Building in Manchester

Posted on December 21st, 2009 under Apartment Design. Post a comment

Chips is a curious construction located in Manchester and developed by Will Alsop to Alsop Architects. This is an 8-storey building built in three different parts, as they said, they pretend to three potato chips (crisps) stacked one above another. Perhaps we can imagine by the asymmetry and ripples between them, but it really doesn’t evoke much like a potato.

Each of the chips or modules, is decorated with texts and phrases that refer to the history of the area in which  exactly the district of New Islington in Manchester. It consists of 142 homes / apartments of one, two and three bedrooms. An original construction undoubtedly capture the attention of all visitors.

The design provides a mix of living and studio units and commercial space within a single project. The project defines a quality of living by combining outstanding design with technological innovation while embracing key concepts of sustainability, integration into the urban landscape and the provision of inspirational and sensational apartment units.

The apartments are planned internally around a central ‘pod’ unit, housing the bathroom and kitchen areas. The apartments can be open plan or sub-divided by the use of large folding screens.

The building’s apartment types range from studio spaces to three bed apartments. There is also a variety of differing external balconies. It marks another significant milestone for New Islington, which will become even more of a community once the residents of Chips move into their apartments in 2009. Launched in 2002, Alsop’s Strategic Framework for New Islington, lays out an exceptional place, modeled around new canal arms and an inspiring landscape.

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