Draft:Fulham Heights

Fulham Heights is 2017/2018 AfriSam-SAIA Award winner for Sustainable Architecture and Innovation. The property has been noted for its efforts to promote urban regeneration and community development.^[1] This incremental urbanist project emerged from Corridors of Freedom initiative and runs as a mixed-use scheme with a small 495m² footprint.^[2]

Breezeblock Cafe, Fulham Heights (26.193°S 28.004°E / -26.193; 28.004)

Designed by Thomas Chapman and located in Brixton, in a notoriously high-crime area, the conversion of a Victorian era corner shop was effected by Local Studio. ^[3]

Founded in 2012, this South African Public Architecture practice^[4] installed a two story high structural steel frame within the walls of Victorian cornershop. Cladding was a combination of corrugated steel panels and translucent polycarbonate. The steel structure above sits in stark contrast with the original concrete façade and colonnades below. ^[5] The building is mixed-use and combines professional offices space, accommodation, the art residency Lapa ^[6] and a restaurant below.^[7]. This public space has held book launches, ^[8] bike workshops ^[9] and supported other community events.