Located in More Close in Purley, the site currently houses a four bedroom family home on a steeply sloping site. The street is undergoing a transformation and is quickly developing into a much higher density street, with numerous applications in place to demolish family homes to be replaced with flats.

With this transformation, comes a change in character but what will not change is the scale of the street. Our approach, therefore, stems from the existing footprints of houses in the street and our proposal reflects the scale of these the two villas, linked by an open staircase, that ensures the architecture is suitable to a suburban street and maintains long views through the centre of the buildings to the mature trees beyond.

Stepped in section, the proposal also reflects the slope of the site and creates privacy for each of the villas and ensures that the proposal is not overbearing on the street.

The material choices for the project are inspired by the local mock tudor villas that make up the majority of the housing stock in the area where we are cladding the villas in roughcast render and pebbledash with a black timber stair linking the two buildings that has tudor details to bring an air of familiarity.