LOCATION: Peckham, 221 Rye Lane, SE15 4TP
BUDGET: £5m
STAGE: Concept
BUDGET: £5m
STAGE: Concept
Render of rear external community space, including vertical residential circulation and sports centre entrance.
Peckham has a variety of different architectural styles, varying from low rise budget orientated buildings to larger, heavily invested, buildings. The north has received investment from the EU and built a Pritzer winning project - Peckham Library. The same needs to happen in the south to begin renovating and increasing business.
The leisure centre will bring activity and a safe place for locals. It will also open up a local gym so residents and the elderly are able to exercise and speak to other people. The business centre will provide those with a platform to bring their business career and learn the basics. It will also be able to act as a multi-use space for conventions. The residential plans will give those living there the ability to live with a sports centre giving them access to different opportunities not given in normal flats.
The leisure centre will bring activity and a safe place for locals. It will also open up a local gym so residents and the elderly are able to exercise and speak to other people. The business centre will provide those with a platform to bring their business career and learn the basics. It will also be able to act as a multi-use space for conventions. The residential plans will give those living there the ability to live with a sports centre giving them access to different opportunities not given in normal flats.
Urban Strategy and the local groups of people included
Peckham is a vibrant part of London, known as one of the most multicultural hot spots uniting a wide range of different nationalities. However, there is a minimal footprint that allows for these different communities to congregate. There is the larger common just south, but little remains public within the heart.
This project seeks to remedy this through a series of hybrid interventions; by providing business opportunities, in both tutorship and expos, sports facilities which are open to everyone and a series of social flats in aim to support the local housing supply. The architectural style, unconventional in Peckham, finds its home in Peckham's radiant supply of architecture. Peckham Live Community Centers' out-of-world character, in relation to the rest of Peckham, isn't lost, but grounded.
Axonometric section showing the hybrid variation of space, from the large entrance hall to the sports hall facilities to the east of the building.