Gin distillery to family home
When Rupert Scott, an architect-developer, and his wife, Leo Wood, an interior designer, bought this gin distillery in east London, it was in a poor state of repair. “It was a wreck — dark and dank without any original industrial features,” says Rupert. “It had a corrugated roof, a steel mezzanine, a concrete floor and a side alley full of fridges,” says Rupert, director of Open Practice Architecture. When turning the building into a modern home for their young family, one of the main challenges was getting enough natural light into the space without creating any issues with overlooking to or from the building.
In addition to inserting new windows into the façade and doing remedial work to the brick structure, a
