Building Design and Building Science: A Study of 'The Narrowest Home' in London, UK

BUILDING DESIGN AND
BUILDING SCIENCE

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................4
Identifying the 'Narrowest home' in London, UK........................................................................4
Structural elements.......................................................................................................................5
The non-structural elements ........................................................................................................7
The behaviour of materials-.........................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Construction is the term that is generally used in architectural or civil engineering fields
which majorly deals regarding the formation for businesses, objects, etc. Pertaining to bygone
decades. The construction industry develops rapidly with various improved technologies plus
designs which also includes multiple stages related with construction (Pleshivtsev, 2020). In the
following report the given project regarding construction is chosen as ' The Narrowest Home'
within London, UK. This project seems to be based on 30 years-old existing low-rise housing
building that had been constructed in the year 1985 and construction time-period for this whole
building was five/5 years from the satrting which comprised many unique ideas and creativity.
Associated space between its rooms is not adequate as it accounts for 5ft 4in (162.56 cm) wide.
Such property is appealing externally too as it was painted in blue that is focus of notice, kitchen,
bedroom-area, bathroom, etc. are all well-furnished along with wooden furniture. The property
was used for photographic industry since several years.
Following report provides a descriptive knowledge that includes address regarding 'The
Narrowest Home's location, postal code, pictures of its front building and realtive construction
date of it. Multiple other features are also illustrated in the report like the motive of construction,
design building, methodologies and materials which imply upon the time of construction.
Furthermore, this report discusses both the structural plus non-structural elements of chosen
housing. Structural dimensions divides into 2 sub parts like the substructure or superstructure.
Substructure comprises a description regarding foundation or techniques which were used in
proper construction regarding this building. The superstructure mainly consists of material plus
tools needed for construction concerning entire building. Its non-structural elements display
related environmental issues regarding materials used for designing mostly based on its thermal
and mechanical features of materials that comprises ceiling, floor-finishing, windows, etc.
Finally report will also discuss defects of mentioned building and failure regarding performance
including design characteristics to prevent the same.

MAIN BODY
Identifying the 'Narrowest home' in London, UK
'The Narrowest Home' has been selected regarding particular study for this report. It's
situated in the Shepherd's Bush lane, West London. Its postal code district zone for this low-rise
building is W12 and its operational dialling code number is 020.
The procedure by which a building is created and the occupation pertaining to building things
gets regarded as construction. The construction or Building process of Constructing is that
process within which various methods and raw materials get assembled. The motive of
construction seems to create most efficient design concerning existing structural elements and
components. Proper selection regarding machinery and equipment needs to be appropriate.
Construction in its later stages seeks that its human resources and materials are efficiently
procured effectually in such way which is suitable regarding the building which requires to be
constructed. The construction motives and reasons include the quality assurance of its proper site
control and supervision including the security of workers at all relative areas. The funds need to
be handled efficiently ensuring appropriate cash flows. Its potential hazards are regulated
properly and mitigated with several effective practices of construction (Hasmori and et.al.,
2020).
The most traditional buildings belonging before the year 1992 in the UK are those ones
that were constructed even prior to 1919. Associated smallest house within Wales region that is
selected for this study could also be regarded as low-rise traditional house. Related walls of such
house are strong and built through natural materials examples of which include earth, mortar,
stone, brick, limestone, timber, and wood. Such buildings were constructed using all these (more
or less) traditional methods regarding construction. Herein within this particular method, the
terminology of traditional is vitally crucial and it is also inclusive of a broad range of styles,
structural ages and kinds of buildings. Such a specific method was generally used in particular
times regarding the construction or building of farmhouses, cottage areas, industrial/residential
and agricultural structures, township houses, terrace shaped rows, chapels, castles/manors and
even stately homes. There exist huge number concerning buildings that were listed under this
traditional category though a vast number regarding houses and businesses that are in use still
today but aren't listed under this category (Roueche and et.al., 2020).