95 Peckham Road, Southwark Housing
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95 Peckham Road in Southwark
14 Sep 2021
Design: Peter Barber Architects
Location: Peckham, Southwark, London, England, UK
95 Peckham Road Housing
95 Peckham Road is a re-interpretation by Peter Barber of the mansion block typology, livening up an otherwise relatively nondescript road in Peckham.
The development creates 33 low-cost apartments, with a courtyard behind. There is direct access from the street and courtyard to the lower apartments. There are two additional access cores for the flats at higher level, each core serving three apartments at each level.
It is not possible to pass the new block without smiling. The building is the work of an architect who knows how to make housing design a success, but with a sense of humour thrown into the mix. The design is dramatic, with a façade made of different planes, windows not necessarily following any order, and long cantilevered balconies to the rear clad on their sides and undersides with brick. Even if these features are perhaps exaggerated, it is hard not to be inspired by their overall theatricality. Paved with cobbles and interspersed with soft landscaping in the form of trees in large containers, the courtyard is a coup. It somehow contrives to be peaceful, a place you want to spend time in and be with friends and neighbours, and will no doubt be developed further as residents customize their front entrances...
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