Knightsbridge, London
Lancelot House
Air quality management and Building Management Systems
- Rigby & Rigby · Allect
- 17,000 sq ft private residence near Harrods
- UK's first residential WELL-certified building
Summary
Lancelot House is a new 17,000 square foot mansion in Knightsbridge, delivered by London studio Rigby & Rigby and set to become the UK's first residential WELL-certified building. OKTO installed a groundbreaking air quality management system across the property's 17 main living spaces, with DFS filtration providing the safest, purest air possible, alongside the full property building management system.
At a glance
- 01Client: Rigby & Rigby, the London design studio delivering the house for a private client
- 0217,000 square feet in Knightsbridge, a short walk from Harrods
- 03Set to become the UK's first residential WELL-certified building on completion
- 04World-leading air quality management system across the 17 main living spaces, with DFS filtration
- 05Fully automated, AI-led control reading occupancy, temperature, humidity, vehicular pollution and pollen
- 06Equipment concealed in void spaces, joinery and furniture units, at extremely low noise, pressure drop and energy levels
The case study
The project
Rigby & Rigby's Lancelot House is an ultra-luxe private client project near Harrods, and the very first large-scale luxury private residence to house a set-up of this kind. Launched in 2014 and overseen by the US-based IWBI, the WELL Building Standard is the world's first building certification that focuses solely on human health and wellness, assessing ten categories: Air, Water, Nourishment, Light, Movement, Thermal Comfort, Sound, Materials, Mind and Community.
The brief
The house had to be kitted out with an air filtration system that promised to eradicate viruses and pollution, meeting the exacting standards of WELL certification. Iain Johnson, Founder and CEO of Rigby & Rigby's group company Allect, set out a series of criteria: a balance between filtration, purification, size on installation and acoustic properties had to be met.
What we delivered
OKTO installed a world-leading air quality management system across the property's 17 main living spaces, with DFS filtration. Fully automated, AI-led technology works out how best to achieve ideal conditions, with sensors determining how many people are in each room and how they are using the space, and what the conditions are like outside — in terms of temperature, humidity, vehicular pollution and pollen levels.
The challenges
The kit had to disappear. It is hidden in void spaces, joinery and furniture units, and runs at extremely low noise, pressure drop and energy levels — while still analysing ultrafine contaminants measuring one thousandth of the width of a human hair, both inside and out.
How we did it
Using the sensor information, the integrated, custom-built system ventilates and cleans the air and updates occupants in real time, allowing them to see the quality of the air they are breathing. Users can also adjust the airflow rates, with pre-set modes ranging from purge, the fastest setting available, to night, at one change per hour.
The result
Philip Dowds, MD of OKTO Technologies: “UHNW clients control everything in their lives down to the finest details and so far, the one thing they have not been able to control is the air they breathe, up until now. Indoor air pollution is an issue that has come to the fore in the past year and it is time developers and housebuilders recognised the impact superior air quality has on the health and wellbeing of its occupants. Rigby & Rigby is at the cutting edge of international real estate, embracing the role of wellbeing in residential design and meeting the exacting standards of the WELL certification.”
Client view
“Lucky with the expertise from OKTO they have excelled on every level whilst being extremely proactive, collaborative and a pleasure to work with — I am confident that not only have we selected a team with tremendous technical knowhow but we are working towards a common goal in providing a system which is intelligent and refined in the delivery of quality air; this is the most sophisticated system we have seen and we are very proud to be able to deliver this for our client.”
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