A feasibility study for the redevelopment of 98 Morden Road, a constrained corner site in South Wimbledon surrounded by two-storey Victorian terraces and a busy arterial road.
The design responds to the tight urban grain by proposing a compact, flat-roofed volume that reads as a deliberate counterpoint to the pitched rooflines of its neighbours. Rather than mimicking the existing terrace pattern, the proposal establishes a clear new datum — a singular rectangular form that acknowledges its context without deferring to it.
A physical site model was developed early in the design process to test the massing against the surrounding streetscape, study daylight impacts on adjoining properties, and communicate the proposal clearly to the client and planning authority. The model became a central tool for iterating the scheme — adjusting the roofline, setbacks, and relationship to the street before committing to a planning application.
The project demonstrates how a tight infill site, often overlooked, can accommodate a considered and architecturally resolved building when the constraints are treated as generators of form rather than obstacles to it.