This ambitious project replaces a vacant and unattractive office block with two carefully designed residential buildings at the heart of Wandsworth Town Centre.
Creating 41 new homes across the two buildings, the scheme delivers smaller one-bed and two-bed apartments, to larger three-bed and four-bed family homes in a mix of tenures, including eleven affordable rented homes, four for shared ownership and twenty-six for private sale. A new flexible commercial unit at ground floor provides an active frontage to the High Street. Each apartment has access to private outdoor amenity space and a communal garden located between the two buildings provides further amenity space for all residents to enjoy.
The architectural language of the street-facing building is formally arranged, having a lower portion which relates to the scale of the street and an upper, set-back part which echoes the form of the adjacent church tower. To form an edge when viewed obliquely, it is composed of pronounced masonry piers framing recessed balconies. The scale of these varies with height, so that the uppermost floors are more open, giving a lighter top. A pair of archways at either side of the elevation connect through to the shared central courtyard and landscape treatments flow throughout the plot giving coherency to the development.
A smaller mews building to the rear is more relaxed in its composition, with applied balconies and a less rigorous arrangement of masonry and large punched windows.
