Peter Barber Architects has created six terraces of brick housing in Charlton, south London, for Greenwich-council owned developer Meridian Home Start.
Named Sandpit Place, the development contains 32 homes in three rows of back-to-back terraced houses. Like the studio's nearby Rochester Way scheme the homes were built for Meridian Home Start and will be available to those working locally at discounted rents.
Peter Barber Architects arranged the houses in six terraces
"The project is street-based terraced housing," explained Peter Barber Architects founder Peter Barber. "To some extent, the houses themselves borrow their layout from Victorian mews houses," he told Dezeen.
"Being pretty square in plan and stepping back at the rear to allow light and ventilation and private roof terraces instead of back gardens." Pedestrian mews divide the housing terraces
The development was built on a previously walled-in site that contained a disability resource centre.
Peter Barber Architects arranged the 30 two-bed houses and two one-bed homes on a series of pedestrian streets that were designed to open up the site and connect the homes to the existing estate.
Each home has a front garden
"Our project is arranged in a ladder of streets which provide a handy cut-through for people... to the bus stop, corner shop and out to the main road," said Barber.
"The new streets we have made link to existing streets and public routes," he continue...