The Paul Street Hotel exemplifies our passion to be at the forefront of engineering design and creating buildings that have a positive impact on the surrounding environment. The proposed ten storey hotel, with its faceted façade at both the front and rear elevation gives a refreshing visual impact on this East London site, currently used as a car park.

By exploring traditional construction materials such as steel and reinforced concrete, alongside emerging structural systems like Cross Laminated Timber we have formulated several options as part of the RIBA Stage 2 design. Tight headroom requirements maximise the number of storeys while keeping the building scale in line with its surroundings. Combining this with the challenging façade geometry and tricky access constraints around the boundaries has inspired some ingenuous combinations of structural materials.

We have documented the site constraints, principles of structural engineering, design options, and recommendations on our RIBA Stage 2 Report that supports the architects design submitted for planning to Hackney Council. Our work has gone on to inform the clients initial costing and option selection.