Open House Festival

Cockpit Studios Deptford

community/cultural

Cooke Fawcett, 2023

18-22 Creekside, Deptford, SE8 3DZ

Completed in summer 2024, the redevelopment of Cockpit Deptford transformed a 1960s council office building into a welcoming community hub with new workshop and studio space for makers and a new public art installation - ‘Head, Heart, Hand’ by Amber Khokhar. Join us during Open House to discover RIBA nominated design and meet a selection of the inspiring makers working at Cockpit Studios.

Getting there

Tube

Greenwich, Deptford Bridge

Train

Deptford

Access

Facilities

Accessibility notes

The tour will primarily be focused on spaces with level access

What you can expect

Seats available in the main foyer at start and end of tour

Cockpit Deptford, copyright Peter Landers Photography
The new studio and workshop building, copyright Max Creasy

About

Design

Part new-build, and part retrofit, the design weaves both elements through the existing concrete frame structure, preserving the building’s modular plan and its existing 60 studios, reconfiguring spaces to create an additional five spaces. The key architectural move is a dramatic 6m-wide opening-up of the 21m-long, 3.5m-high brick wall to the street, transforming what was previously an inaccessible, underused front yard into a new craft garden which serves as a welcoming gateway, housing a new public entrance, a new public art installation designed by Cockpit maker Amber Khokhar, flexible educational spaces, a café and a revamped leatherworkers’ hub. This gives Cockpit Deptford a permanent public presence for the first time, making it more open, active, inviting and accessible.

Online presence

cockpitstudios.org

www.instagram.com/cockpitstudios

Nearby

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Creekside Discovery Centre

education, garden, community/cultural, mixed use, event

Join us for the annual open day at Creekside Discovery Centre on the banks of Deptford Creek. We are a thriving wildlife conservation and environmental education charity. Our open day will include a host of fun activities for people of all ages as you'll be able get up close and personal with wild plants and animals sharing Creekside with us - on land and in the river!

Unknown, 2002

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Art in Perpetuity Trust

art studio

Open Studios, provides a unique glimpse to the architectural spaces and working studios of APT artists. Over the weekend, there is also the opportunity to see our Group Show in the Gallery, curated by and featuring APT artist's work.

, 1995

Walking tour

South East London Community Energy - Walking Tour

walk/tour

Join South East London Community Energy for a walking tour of two community energy sites and a workshop on how community energy can help future-proof our city.

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Open Textile Studio and Weaving Exhibition

art studio

Nestled in a corner of Sir Richard Roger's Station House, Freeweaver Studio is part of the rapidly emerging creative independent Deptford Market Yard community.

Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners, 2016

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University of Greenwich, Stockwell Street

education

The building features a limestone exterior designed to 'complement but not mimic' the surrounding historical architecture, whilst behind the façade is a 4-storey composition of steel, glass and exposed concrete.

Heneghan Peng Architects, 2014

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Old Royal Naval College

historical house, open site, museum

Sir Christopher Wren's riverside masterpiece in Greenwich, built as the Royal Hospital for Seamen and begun in 1696 on the site of the Tudor Greenwich Palace. Occupied by the Royal Naval College from 1869 to 1998, it is now a premier historic, cultural and educational destination in the heart of the Maritime Greenwich UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Sir Christopher Wren, 1696

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