EES

Providing a new home and archive for the Egyptian Exploration Society

Architect: Studio Becoming
Budget: £2 million
In Design

Renders: Studio Becoming

The Society has been funding and leading archaeological exploration and research in Egypt for over 150 years. In that time they have amassed an impressive library of books and extremely fragile papyri.

This project rehomes their full archive plus offices and public exhibition spaces in a single home for the first time in their history, radically transforming the 3 Bloomsbury mews houses they have inhabited and owned for 60 years.

The scheme carefully considers and keeps all of the existing fabric that we can, whilst inserting appropriate materials and structures for the higher priority archive areas, all behind a refurbished and retained facade.

The new story matches its neighbours and provides a single residential unit as well as more working space for the Society.