Braganza
Kennington, London
Housing, workspace and a high-quality accessible public realm
A mixed-use mews development, built existing terraces and a primary school
The massing is broken down to achieve the picturesque quality of a group of buildings of different heights whilst still reinforcing the common identity of the whole
Decorated gable walls studies
Of a shallow brickwork relief tracing the profiles reminiscent of chimney stacks
Project Details
- Braganza, Kennington, London, 2016–2018
- Client: Southwark Council
- Status: Built
The project is a small collection of apartments, mews houses and workspace buildings, tucked in a backstreet next to Kennington underground station. The site is bound by Braganza Street, a residential road of low rise post war housing, and some fragments and facsimiles of Georgian terraces, and Keyworth School to the south, a large Victorian board school, with a network of more recent extensions.
The brick and precast elements refer to the adjacent houses and school while the robust block massing refers to the industrial past of the site. A new workspace building frames the pedestrian mews and the ground floor flats and maisonettes are accessed directly from outside, bringing footfall to support and protect communal play for new residents, neighbours and children on their way to school.
AKA Design Team
- Levitt Bernstein Associates
- Ellis & Moore
- MLM
- Baily Garner
- Point2Surveyors
- Project Centre
- Everitt CDM
- StUF
- DF Clark
- Jomas
- ESI International
Executive Architect Fourpoint Architects
Contractor Durkan
1/2A small scale cohesive character which responds to the surrounding context whilst providing high quality tenure blind housing.
A palette of ordinary and robust character
