Alex Montiel Aguilar

The project houses the new studio of the rock band Marillion, Racket Club, and adds a merchandise office and a guesthouse. The site is on the outskirts of Aylesbury, mid-point between London and Oxford, but in the centre of an invisible network of activity, while Marillion today’s success is based on internet campaigns and supported by thousands of fans worldwide.

This is only a design, which builds-up the image of a wealthy music label, but I know it will make sense to this network, to the adjoining terraces and industrial estate, and to the footpath and Bear brook with its remnants of rural origin.
The studio is proposed as a structure, which has little presence in its external form, yet is enclosing as an interior. Small windows allow views into the footpath, brook, and vegetation beyond. The rest of the building turns inwards to form a courtyard and a private garden around which the management and relaxing areas are organized, the outer facade continues the sinuous line of the Mill way and contains the main entrance.

In a similar way the outer wall of the guesthouse, Mill End Pub, mimics that of the studio, both clad in brickwork, which relates to the simple materials of the neighbours. Where Mill way meets the brook, the guesthouse opens as a pub with long windows, letting see how footpath and brook vanishes into Buckinghamshire landscape.
The merchandise office, Racket Records, is self-standing and resembles other sheds along the brook. This light and detail-less structure fills the ground at Oxford road side, and overcomes the mass of the other two buildings.
I believe that architecture can connect to the town and everyday life. This design is a hybrid of private, public, technical.
Club – House – Studio

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