The site is the vacant former Rayners Lane Library on the western side of Imperial Drive. The area is most widely know as the location of Rayners Lane tube station, first built in 1906 in the Art Deco style, and most of the settlement built around the tube station are in similar but more streamlined modernist 30s style similar to that of Raners Lane Library.

 

The client ‘Reliant Care Ltd’ is a small organisation that provides support to individuals enduring a range of learning difficulties. They work with their residents to engage them in a recovery and rehabilitation programme which is aimed to build the foundations of independent living within a community environment.

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The client wishes to redevelop the Former Raynes Lane Library to provide the following accommodation:

• Head office for Reliant Care Ltd 

• Bakery for sale of hot food made by the residents, with seating outside on the
  public pavement

• An education centre for the training of the residents

• 18 x 1 bed flats for the residents

 

Frank Architecture has developed new designs for the Former Raynes Lane Library providing a modern 'centre' that houses staff, education facilities and residential accommodation for the residents, all in one. A unique pioneering project that the client hopes to repeat again all over London.