In this project for a small but innovative property developer, seven new build studio houses for artists and designers, are situated against Peckham Rye Railway Station, within the Bellendon Conservation Area.

 

The brief extends the existing uses of design studios, workshops and artists spaces, which currently occupy the railway arches and courtyard.

The rear, zinc clad element unifies the composition and responds to the scale and toughness of the immediate context. Its form distorts in response to the dynamism of the railway viaduct.

The south facing edge to the street is articulated at a different scale as a series of engineering brick pavilions, courts and terraces which mediate between its domestic and light industrial neighbours.