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

Building design and building
science
Bsc Hons Construction Management
Building Design and Building Science
Student Name: Viorel Ionut Paladoiu
Student ID: 2127694
Group: C2
Name of Lecturer: Sonny Obanore
Date: 30.09.2022

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Identification of the Narrowest home in London........................................................................3
The structural elements................................................................................................................6
The non-structural elements........................................................................................................8
The behaviour of materials..........................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1
CONSERVING TRADITIONAL BUILDINGS.............................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Construction is a term which is generally in architectural field that majorly deals with the
formation of organization, objects, etc. from past some decades, construction industry grow
rapidly with many improved technologies and designs that also includes many stages related to
construction. In this report the project of construction is selected as ' The Narrowest Home' in
London. This project is based on old existing low rise housing building which was constructed in
year of 1985 and construction duration for this entire building was 5 years from its initial which
consist of many unique idea and creativity. The space in between the room is not enough because
it is 5ft 5in (1.65 m) s wide. This property is attractive as externally is painted in blue which is
point of noticing, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom all are well furnished and have wooden furniture.
This property also used in photographic industry for many years.
This report gives a descriptive information which includes address of The Narrowest
Home, location, postcode, photograph of front building and construction date of building. Many
other aspects are also described in the report such as purpose of construction, building design,
method and material which imply on the time of constriction. Also, this report discussed on the
structural and non- structural element of selected housing. Structural element divides into two
sub parts such as substructure and superstructure. Substructure includes a description of
foundation and techniques which was used in the proper construction of building. And
superstructure mainly includes material and tools required for construction of entire building.
Non- structural elements describe the environmental issue regard to material used for
construction mainly based on the thermal & mechanical characteristics of materials which
includes ceiling, floor's finishing, windows, etc. and at last this report will discuss defects of
existing building and failure of performance and design characteristics for preventing that issue.
MAIN BODY
Identification of the Narrowest home in London
The Narrowest Home is selected for study in this report. It is located in Shepherd's Bush,
west London. The postcode district of this building is W12 and the dialling code is 020.

Front view of the Building