Long walk home

摘要

Somehow I'd never got to see the famous Walter Segal-designed late 1970s self-build development in Lewisham, Walter's Way. It had certainly never occurred to me that the concept of these timber-framed homes, straggling down a steep hill on a plot too awkward for conventional developers, might be a model for a large new build-for-rent development nearby. Such is the case however, though having now seen both, it's clear that you can't push the analogy too far. Church-wood Gardens by architect Bryden Wood is an intriguing exercise in making a relative- ly high-density housing development on a landlocked hillside site in south London.