Vassall Road Housing and Healthcare Centre
Brixton, London

The key purpose of the project is to provide a Doctors surgery for the community, with a clear identity and entrance from Vassall Road. The development also provides two 2-bedroom flats and seven 2-bedroom maisonettes in the floors above the surgery. Servite Housing Association and developer Baylight Properties are committed to a carefully crafted building that will be an exemplar for the whole estate.

The building that we have designed is similar in height to the adjacent estate. Scale and form of windows derives from the Villas and terraced houses in the area. Facades are in brick and lightly over-painted with Keim mineral paint to simulate the aged quality of the brickwork in the surrounding Villas.

A major consideration has been to minimise the sense of enclosure by the existing flats in Healy House and to provide far better outlook for them than in the previously consented scheme. To this end, the rear elevation will be stepped back at first floor level, and the area of ground between the scheme and Healy House will be laid out as a wide planted pavement.

Status: Completed March 2008
Client: Baylight Properties
Photographs: © Peter Cook

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