TERRACE MEETS FLAT

摘要

When the client turns up for the visit before the architect and talks as an owner of the building concept and detail, you know you are in for something special. The client in this case is developer (and architect) Roger Zogolovitch of Solid Space Developments. The scheme's architect, de Rijke Marsh Morgan (dRMM), has been working with, as much as for, Zogolovitch - there is a personal chemistry in their open discussion of this scheme and of design generally. The question of who did what in the creation of this scheme is not one either of them is much concerned to answer. The brief came with sketches. Built hardly a metre from the arches supporting the tracks into London's Waterloo station, this is gritty city rather than prime site. As a developer, Zogolovitch is focused on 'no.one' (ie No 1) Centaur Street as a prototype for high-density urban housing, working with dRMM to explore the possibilities for the basic duplex unit and the extension of the whole both vertically and horizontally; not to mention a focus on cost-effective construction, including learning the craft of fair-faced in situ concrete, some- thing of a culture shock for Alex de Rijke, a self-confessed prefabrication freak.