Award-winning London based architecture practice Piercy & Company recently revealed their proposal for Drayton Green Church in Ealing, London, a new building for the International Presbyterian Church (IPC). Their scheme retains an existing Grade ll listed chapel – originally built as an annex to the previously adjacent St Helena’s Home for ‘fallen women’ – and encloses it within a larger scheme. This new design includes an entrance hall, administrative and meeting spaces, and a worship space for up to 200 people. They are anticipating to start construction in the summer of 2013. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Piercy&Company have been working on the designs since July 2011, with a brief to create a contemporary building, located at the centre of the IPC’s own community, to serve the Church’s growing work and congregation. The original chapel is enfolded and showcased within the new building, its exterior walls transformed into a rustic interior object, unexpectedly encountered when moving between the entrance hall and the new worship space. A thin offset of roof level glazing connects the chapel with the new building, allowing natural light to penetrate the original leaded glass and serving to differentiate the old from the new.
