The Queen of Catford

Acting as a catalyst for future development, we worked with architects Tsuruta Architects to develop an attractive pre-regeneration housing project in Catford Town Centre in South London.

The building has been designed to transform an alleyway into a small boulevard, with large windows at ground level to enliven the pedestrian route through to a car park. An external staircase ascends the development, it is wrapped in a metal screen that has been perforated with hundreds of cat-shaped holes, revealing the movement within. Laser-cut cat-face steel plates are used to create a zigzag-shaped balcony that projects out over the street below.

Internally the architect deployed a plywood digital fabrication method to create furniture, storage, mezzanine stairs and kitchens. Door handles, coat hooks and kitchen cabinet, concrete pad stones and more are all shaped with a cat motif, with tens of thousands of such references across the development’s interior and exterior.