This design is for a proposed eight-unit housing scheme to occupy a corner site on a prominent hill in south London. The scheme replaces a single bungalow and makes use of an underutilised large plot, intensifying its use to provide much needed family housing for the area.

The scheme comprises two large family houses and six apartments. The design takes advantage of the corner site to propose a building form that steps in height to mirror the height of adjacent properties at either end.

The roofs of the building have been designed to respond to the site and surrounding context. The asymmetrical roofs to the houses and some of the flats are a contemporary reinterpretation of a traditional hipped roof. The asymmetry provides a more expansive portion of south-facing roof ideal for solar panels.

The material palette is sympathetic to the neighbourhood, with red clay tiles being used as a roofing and wall cladding material, bringing homogeneity and interest to the external appearance of the building. Panels of perforated brick are proposed on areas of the ground floor to animate the facade and bring light into bike stores. The design offers contemporary interpretations of regularly used local features such as protruding bays and pitched roofs.