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Landscape Garden Community Author Name, Shaun Aldred, Godinterest Journal (ISSN:) An exploration of the viability and associated issues of constructing a garden community (Volume 1, Issue 1) TITLE: Landscape garden community Shaun Aldred [email protected] MSc Building Surveying student (2009) ABSTRACT The dissertation reviews current green architecture and landscape design around the world with specific reference to the UK market. The review forms the basis of a case study which explores a new development proposal for a small-scale landscaped community set in a rural location on green field land. A wide range of people were contacted across the housing industry and beyond. Conversations with senior executives of many of the volume house builders in the UK together with some of the more innovative small and mid-size developers identified key differences in the importance they attach to design, corporate brand and their view of the housing market as well as their comments on the viability of such a landscaped community. The chapters include a survey of architects who are seeking to change the relationship between buildings and the environment dealing with such issues as environmental technology, energy conservation, sustainability and the conversion of all these elements into architecture as art. Chapter 4 focuses on landscaped gardens and reviews some of the more innovative designers and their influence on the built environment. Other stakeholder’s views about the development proposal are considered including those of architects, financiers, local planning authorities and landscape designers. To ascertain potential demand for the development, estate agents and journalists who write for various broadsheet papers were also contacted. Given the dynamics of bringing together a disparate group of people to design, build and maintain landscaped gardens, insights from a rural anthropologist are considered together with related marketing issues in how to target potential residents and the key communications that would be required to generate interest. © 2019, Shaun Aldred. All rights reserved. Author Name, Shaun Aldred, Godinterest Journal (ISSN:) Keywords: Trends in green / sustainable housing, communities, housing design in the UK, earth structures, importance of brand © 2019, Shaun Aldred. All rights reserved. CHAPTER 1 ............................................................................................................................................. 3 1.0 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................... 4 1.1 AIM ............................................................................................................................................... 5 1.11 Objectives ............................................................................................................................ 5 1.12 Further objectives ................................................................................................................ 5 1.13 Hypothesis ........................................................................................................................... 5 1.2 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY ............................................................................................................ 6 1.21 Research strategy ................................................................................................................ 7 1.22 Significance of the research problem (originality value) .................................................... 10 1.3 LITERATURE REVIEW ................................................................................................................... 10 1.4 DEVELOPMENT OVERVIEW ........................................................................................................... 12 1.5 FINDINGS .................................................................................................................................... 12 1.6 PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS ........................................................................................................... 13 CHAPTER 2 ........................................................................................................................................... 14 2.0 THE CHALLENGE FOR ARCHITECTS ................................................................................... 31 2.1 CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF ARCHITECTS .......................................................................................... 35 CHAPTER 3 ........................................................................................................................................... 55 3.0 COST: GREEN VS. TRADITIONAL ......................................................................................... 56 3.1 NATURE FIRST, ARCHITECTURE SECOND PHILOSOPHY ................................................................... 61 3.2 CRITERIA FOR ASSESSING COTTESBROOKE ................................................................................... 62 3.3 RADICAL ARCHITECTURE OFTEN FAILS (HISTORICAL JOURNEY) .................................................... 64 3.4 GREEN TECHNOLOGY................................................................................................................... 68 3.5 ARCHITECTS STILL HAVE TO OPERATE IN THE WORLD ................................................................... 70 3.6 ARCHITECTS LINK WITH NATURE ................................................................................................. 70 3.7 SUMMARY ................................................................................................................................... 72 CHAPTER 4 ........................................................................................................................................... 74 4.0 KEY DEFINITIONS ..................................................................................................................... 75 4.1 GARDENS .................................................................................................................................... 76 4.2 KEY INFLUENCES ON GARDENS .................................................................................................... 77 4.3 LAND SETTLEMENT AND HISTORY IN OTHER COUNTRIES ............................................................... 81 4.4 GARDEN DESIGNERS .................................................................................................................... 83 CHAPTER 5 ......................................................................................................................................... 101 5.0 COMMUNITIES ......................................................................................................................... 102 5.1 INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES ...................................................................................................... 102 5.2 GETTING STARTED: THE FIRST STEPS OF BUILDING A COMMUNITY… .......................................... 102 5.3 GATED COMMUNITIES ................................................................................................................ 105 5.4 KIBBUTZ ................................................................................................................................... 107 5.5 SUMMARY ................................................................................................................................. 113 CHAPTER 6 ......................................................................................................................................... 115 6.0 WHY DESIGN MATTERS ........................................................................................................ 118 6.1 WHO I INTERVIEWED AND WHY.................................................................................................. 122 6.2 ACCORDIA (STIRLING PRIZE WINNING RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT IN 2008) .............................. 125 6.3 BUILDING A BRAND ................................................................................................................... 128 6.4 DESIGN ..................................................................................................................................... 138 6.5 MARKETING .............................................................................................................................. 140 6.6 BUILDING HOUSES VS. COMMUNITIES ......................................................................................... 147 6.7 WHAT OTHERS HAD TO SAY ....................................................................................................... 148 6.71 A financier’s perspective ................................................................................................. 148 6.72 Savills – view from a leading estate agent ........................................................................ 150 6.73 Joanna Trollope (novelist) – what she had to say ............................................................. 151 6.74 Martin Philips (Reader in Social and Cultural Geography, University of Leicester) ........ 152 6.75 Catherine Boyle (property journalist – Times) ................................................................. 153 6.76 View from Communities and Local Government (CLG) ................................................... 153 6.8 EXAMPLE OF A DEVELOPMENT ON GREEN FIELD ......................................................................... 156 6.9 COMMENTS
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