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| Exterior and interior of Shepherdess Walk |
Rowan Moore's article about Shepherdess Walk, London is particularly interesting because of its comments about how our use of and needs in space change:
"Inside, the homes are based on what their developer Roger Zogolovitch calls the “split section”, an idea he has explored on other smallish developments that his company Solidspace has dotted around the capital. This means that you progress up them from half-level to half-level, rather than whole floors at a time, which means that space flows through the building rather than being compartmentalised. A stair, rather than being encased in walls and lobbies, becomes part of the living spaces, and the designation of any one place to any particular activity – eating, working, sleeping, socialising – becomes blurred. The idea is to reflect contemporary ways of living, rather than replicate Victorian hierarchies that have long since disappeared.
The arrangement also makes movement through the houses and apartments into imaginative journeys, with continuously changing shapes and proportions, falls of light, relationships of one room or level to another, and of interior to external terraces and balconies and to views of surroundings or of the sky. It considers inhabitation to be something done in different ways in different places, and at different times of day."
