Cooke Fawcett reveals workings of "messy and noisy" Cockpit Deptford studios

A series of interventions by local studio Cooke Fawcett has opened up a cluster of makers' studios in south London to the public and given them a stronger street presence.

The studio revamped and expanded a 1960s office building by a railway viaduct in Deptford, which for twenty years has been home to Cockpit – a social enterprise providing affordable studio space.

While the centre hummed with activity inside...