Small urban infill projects can live or die on material choices, and Wright Office’s Radnor Road in Peckham shows how brick can do a lot of heavy lifting in a tight footprint. Set on a triangular site, the 130-square-meter development fits two apartments behind a modest 4-meter street frontage that widens to 13 meters at the rear, where two private garden areas open up.
According to the project team, the design is meant to unfold as you move through it, starting with a dim, narrow entry and ending in brighter rooms with garden views. The front elevation sits between mid-century homes from the 1950s through the 1970s, and the facade uses a darker palette to stay subdued in the streetscape. The rear elevation reads more openly, tying the apartments to the outdoor space.
On the ground floor, the first apartment places a guest bedroom near the entrance, then opens into a large kitchen and living space. A master bedroom connects directly to a patio garden, where rough clinker brickwork is used around the garden-facing edge.
For mason contractors, that combination of textured brick near grade and garden patios puts the spotlight on details that show up fast in the field: consistent joint tooling, protection during construction, and clean transitions at doors and thresholds. On compact sites like this, staging and access also matter, since material handling, scaffold placement, and sequencing get tight quickly.
The upper apartment includes living space and a main bedroom, plus an attic level with a skylit bathroom and spare bedroom. A stair connects up to another private garden, bringing daylight and outdoor space deeper into the plan. Project photography is credited to Building Narratives.
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