The Turner Prize-winning collective Assemble's Yardhouse in east London is now awaiting its new owner for £150,000 (excluding VAT). The Yardhouse was originally built as the practice's workspace but this modular, two-storey building has recently been disassembled and put into storage and listed at the Modern House website for sale. 

If you're keen on some sort of historical convergences through a piece of art and architecture, you can purchase this flexible and substantial structure that would suit a wide variety of uses. Transportation and re-erection of the building within the UK can be arranged, subject to additional fees.

Yardhouse is a modular two-storey, three-bay structure, with a square plan measuring 12m x 12m. The gross internal area is approximately 250 sq m. Assemble configured it with a three-aisle layout, where studios lined the edges and the centre became a double-height atrium. In theory, the new owner could reinstate the same layout, or adapt it suit to their own needs.
The building has a barn-like timber frame enclosed with an off-the-shelf Kingspan insulated cladding system. The front façade is hung with beautiful handmade concrete tiles in a variety of pastel colours, giving it a distinct identity.

Through utilising off-the-shelf materials and taking an extremely economical approach to construction, the project provides the generous scale, light quality and ceiling heights desirable for creative uses at a fraction of the cost of a conventional new build. Constructed for only £291/m², the project presents extraordinary value for money and guarantees that the spaces provided can be affordably let to its end users. 

The building was fully let prior to completion, oversubscribed by 10 applicants for every space. Yardhouse was designed and built by Assemble, including fixtures and fittings. Internal partitions are tenants’ own.

Top image: Yardhouse is an affordable workspace building in Sugarhouse Yard in Stratford. Image © Assemble

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