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Flats at Ham Common
circa 1955-1959
File 10
File documents an executed project (1955-1958) for a private housing development in London, England, United Kingdom. File also documents an unexecuted project (1957) for an extension to the housing development. Material in this file was produced between 1955 and 1959, and probably after.
File contains a design drawing, presentation drawings, photographic materials, and textual records.
Material in this project series was likely kept in its original order when it was first processed upon its arrival at CCA.
Ham Richmond upon Thames Greater London England United Kingdom
Documents are in English and German.
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schematic drawing showing an earlier proposal for the site plan and elevation
1 File
sheet (approx.): 38 x 83 cm
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0468
Objects that have been catalogued:
plan oblique for the site showing the three blocks of flats and the garages and the massing for Langham House, a hand-coloured west elevation for the three-storey block, a sectional oblique drawing for the three-storey block of flats showing the interior elevations for the living rooms, and plans for the three-storey and two-storey block of flats
6 presentation drawing(s)
Graphite, coloured pencil, and ink on translucent paper
- The presentation drawing for the plan oblique for the site, the hand-coloured presentation drawing for the west elevation for the three-storey block and the presentation for the sectional oblique for the three-storey block of flats were originally in mats stamped "Ham Common. Housing. 1955-58".
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Objects that have been catalogued:
working drawings, including plans for the three-storey block of flats, and presentation and publication drawings, including bird's-eye sectional perspectives showing plans for the two-bedroom flats in the two-storey and three-storey block of flats
4 presentation drawing(s)
sheet (smallest): 18 x 26 cm sheet (largest): 20 x 34 cm
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Objects that have been catalogued:
views by James Stirling, Michael Wickham, and Richard Einzig or the studio of Brecht-Einzig, showing the Langham House site before the construction of the blocks of flats, exterior and interior views and details of the completed blocks of flats, and the building site at various stages of progress; also includes views of presentation drawings and views of a sectional perspective drawing (not otherwise present in the project documents) showing a typical living room elevation for a two-bedroom flat in the three-storey block
1 photograph(s)
Gelatin silver prints
- Several photographs are mounted on cardboard.
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0469
Objects that have been catalogued:
3 photograph(s)
Gelatin silver prints
sheets: 31 x 31 cm
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0409
Objects that have been catalogued:
views by James Stirling, Michael Wickham, and Richard Einzig or the studio of Brecht-Einzig, showing the Langham House site before the construction of the blocks of flats, exterior and interior views and details of the completed blocks of flats, and the building site at various stages of progress; also includes views of presentation drawings, and one negative shows part of a page of an article on the flats at Ham Common from an unidentified journal
1 negative(s)
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0469
17 negative(s)
negatives: 10 x 12 cm
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
4 photograph(s)
Chromogenic colour prints and colour transparency
photographic materials (smallest): 8 x 7 cm photographic materials (largest): 21 x 26 cm
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0469
views of presentation drawings and a view of a sectional perspective drawing (not otherwise present in the project documents) showing a typical living room elevation for a two-bedroom flat in the three-storey block
6 negative(s)
Glass negatives
negatives: 17 x 22 cm
Glass negatives. Manipulate with care.
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0471
two-page technical feature on the flats at Ham Common, including detail drawings for the kitchen units, from the 'Architect and Building News'
1 article(s)
sheet: 30 x 22 cm
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
plan and elevation, and a diagrammatic plan oblique showing the staggered arrangement of the maisonettes for the addition to the Flats at Ham Common
2 presentation drawing(s)
Graphite, coloured pencil, and ink on translucent paper
sheet (smallest): 32 x 21 cm sheet (largest; irreg.): 32 x 33 cm
- The drawing for the elevation and the drawing for the plan are joined together with tape.
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0473
8 photograph(s)
Gelatin silver prints
sheets (smallest): 7 x 16 cm sheets (largest): 26 x 30 cm
- Two of the photographs are joined together with tape.
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0474
Objects that have been catalogued:
1 negative(s)
sheet: 12 x 17 cm
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0474
1 text(s)
Signed typescript
sheet: 26 x 21 cm
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
140-0504
1 transparency(ies)
Colour transparencies
James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Legs de la famille Stirling/
Bequest of the Stirling family
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