6 PRIVATELY DEVELOPED DWELLINGS
At first glance, no one would think that the Costa Street project could be located in the heart of a London neighborhood: both its geometry and its exterior appearance based on wood, slate and black brick are far from the classic aesthetics of UK terraced housing, clad with the classic London Stock brick in light tones.

However, this six-unit building designed and built by WHAT Architecture in collaboration with Egoin is located in south London, in the Peckham area, a neighborhood of strong contrasts in which multicultural bustle coexists with residential areas but maintains a typically British urban identity.

Its design can only be described as groundbreaking: although its predominant exterior color is black, the developers have combined it with exposed interiors, walls and ceilings made of CLT cross-laminated timber to achieve a deep contrast with its surroundings. To this is added a more than peculiar geometry, whose upper part has a trapezoidal design reminiscent of the dorsal fin of a shark.