The Heathrow Express has taken you to chaotic St. Pancreas Station.

You step out to be sur-

rounded by busy yellow bricks and anonymous Londoners giving you a cold eye. Haphazard build-
ings sprung up like mushrooms after rain welcome you in a reserved manner. It is exciting to breathe
in the energy of urban life, but it makes your head swirl. Perhaps better to hop in a black cab

Crossing Waterloo Bridge, you find a curious object extruding from the Queen Elizabeth
Hall in conversation with the London Eye. It is your asylum in London, which works on a South Kens-
ington girl and a Hoxton Square boy alike, who would like to be invited up to share the experience

On the roof of the Queen Elizabeth Hall, there stands the Peephole, absorbing the skyline
straddling the Thames. Curtains left open, you recognize a familiar object: a wide-angle lens pointing
to the sky. You approach the Peephole with a little tingle. A gentle ramp begirds the layers of the lens.
Curving around the middle layer, containing all the small necessary amenities and toilet, you reach
the focal layer nesting a bed at an appropriate height below the lens. As you put yourself in the most
comfortable position, your eyes take in the whole of the London skyline refracted through the double
lens of water and plexi — even better when it drizzles. This is where both Londoners and visitors can
sneak a peek at quiet beauty in this modern ancient city

THE PEEPHOLE
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 01 mechanical room

02 amenities

01
/ OUTER LENS 03 bed

01 fisheye lens in plexi 04 inner lens ( water )

05 void ( air )
02
/ INNER LENS 06 outer lens ( plexi )

01 01 water lens + plexi shell

02 ventilation system
03 water pipe device
03

207.76°

+5,65
/ STEEL FRAME n5air=1

n4plexi=1.5 06

n3air=1
03 / ENVELOPE 05
01 02
04
+4,20
01 black velvet curtain
02 grey cotton curtain
n2water=1.33
03 white sheer curtain
04
04 extra white glass
+3,35
n1air=1

02 / BASE 95.99°
01
01 focal layer : bed
03
02 middle layer : program
03 peripheral layer : ramp

03

+1,35

02

01

+0,50

+0,00

section - THE PEEPHOLE

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 06

07

1,10 m

05
0,76 m

0,45 m

7,70 m 3,10 m

0,45 m

0,76 m
04

1,10 m
01

02

03

+4,20

01 toilet

02 washbasin

03 wardrobe
+0,85
04 table

05 workspace
+0,50
06 powder room

07 bathtub

07 06 05 04 03 02 01

plan & program - THE PEEPHOLE

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 exterior view - THE PEEPHOLE
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 interior view - THE PEEPHOLE
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