History

The Remakery is a unique space in the London maker landscape. It was conceived during a Transition Town Brixton project night, and built entirely by volunteers, exemplifying what community power can achieve with support from Local Authorities.

The Remakery has gone through several stages of development, and now houses 10 ecologically and socially focussed entrepreneurs in affordable studio spaces, as well as a zero waste vegetarian cafe, a reclaimed wood store and 6 communal rooms where the community can take part in skills based projects.

Design and Build by Architect Alasdair Dixon

In 2011 Transition Town Brixton approached Architecture for Humanity UK, a small built environment charity, about the retrofit of a derelict 1000m² car park between north Brixton and Camberwell. TTB wanted to create an innovative centre for remaking and re-use, and bring new energy to this unloved space.
The project presented many challenges, not least agreeing a layout with the nearly 40 stakeholders, who all had different aspirations for this ambitious project. Additional challenges including achieving building control compliance within a significantly constrained space with a very limited budget.

After 18 months of meetings, co-design workshops, and council presentations a design was agreed and the relevant drawings and documents were submitted for planning. Despite all the challenges and thanks to the tenacity of the team involved, planning was awarded in 2013 and work got underway on an ambitious community self-build programme.

Architecture, Engineering & Construction Team:

Isabel Hankart, Taus Larsen, Alasdair Ben Dixon, Cameo Musgrave, Ethelinde Radloff, Fraser

McQuade, Simon Rochowski, Luis Torres, Kerstin Bevin, Katherine McNeil, Anthony Cole, Zohra Chiheb, Chris Murch, Jimo Sope, Leah Langdon, Chrysoula Fragala, Pete Boyce, Declan Caffrey, Conleth Ryan, Malik Hussain, Bob Neve, Martin Meltzer, Jake Cingel, Andy, Trevor, Winford, Rebekah, Kathe, Mark, Marente, Colin Rose, Tom Rowley & many many more..