{"id":190512,"date":"2025-10-10T13:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T13:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/190512\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T13:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T13:16:10","slug":"cuozzo-company-wraps-london-infill-block-around-a-deep-lightwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/190512\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuozzo.Company wraps London infill block around a deep lightwell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Local architecture studio Cuozzo.Company has completed 112 Peckham High Street, a mixed-use<\/a> infill block in London<\/a>, which is organised around a communal lightwell<\/a> and fern garden.<\/p>\n

The scheme contains one retail unit and four apartments on a constrained site in southeast London, which had proven difficult to develop due to extensions to the neighbouring buildings and numerous windows in the party walls on either side.<\/p>\n

\"ExteriorCuozzo.Company has completed a mixed-use infill block in London<\/p>\n

To negotiate these constraints, Cuozzo.Company has organised the three-storey block around a deep lightwell, providing green space and natural light for the apartments while keeping the neighbouring windows unobstructed.<\/p>\n

“Our response had to carefully respond to these windows in order to maintain privacy, light and views,” founder Alessio Cuozzo told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

\"112<\/p>\n

“This was the fundamental driving force behind the need for the central lightwell and its design as a light-filled, outdoor space,” Cuozzo continued.<\/p>\n

“We sought to maximise the efficiency of space wherever we could to offset the space lost due to the lightwell window constraints.”<\/p>\n

\"ViewThe block contains a retail unit and four apartments<\/p>\n

Above the ground-floor retail unit, currently occupied by a hairdresser, the four apartments are split across either side of the central lightwell. They are connected by a concrete stair and perforated walkways sheltered by metal bars for climbing plants.<\/p>\n

Small bathroom windows overlook the courtyard at the lower levels, while on the top floor, one apartment features an external terrace and another a sawtooth row of timber-framed windows overlooking a large planter.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Covent<\/p>\n

Carmody Groarke tops listed London penthouse with aluminium “rooftop pavilion”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n

At the rear of the block, apartments have been given access to balconies, while those at the front benefit from rows of large, deep-set windows with arched openings that project from the zinc-clad mansard roof.<\/p>\n

The presence of the lightwell informed the material palette. Black brick is used for the street-facing facade and narrow entrance corridor, while white brick is used internally, creating a sense of “compression and release”.<\/p>\n

\"CorridorMetal bars for climbing plants line the walkways<\/p>\n

“The full height, full width, black exterior sets the robust tone and expectation of what is within,” Cuozzo said.<\/p>\n

“The access from street to lightwell is also finished in black brick, and is relatively narrow, creating a sense of compression which finally releases on entering the lightwell,” he added. “The mansard is finished with zinc shingles with a range of tones to give a lightly mottled effect and introduce a bit of grain into an otherwise stark material.”<\/p>\n

\"DiningThe front apartments feature arched openings<\/p>\n

London-based Cuozzo.Company, formerly known as Cuozzo Fleming, was founded in 2015.<\/p>\n

Other infill schemes recently completed in London include a net-zero social housing complex in Hackney by Satish Jassal Architects<\/a> and Spruce House by Ao-ft in Walthamstow<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The photography is by Francesco Russo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local architecture studio Cuozzo.Company has completed 112 Peckham High Street, a mixed-use infill block in London, which is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[17295,6225,6485,6486,1120,309,96,388,83605,38778,40339,40340,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-190512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-apartments","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-england","tag-entertainment","tag-london","tag-london-apartments","tag-mixed-use","tag-sectionall","tag-sectionarchitecture","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}