Affordable Housing FCBStudios Affordable Housing 01 | Pioneering modular 02 | Medium Density 03 | Estate Regeneration 04 | Low density Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios LLP Twenty Carver’s Warehouse Studio 2 Tottenham Street 77 Dale Street 15a Calton Road London W1T 4RF Manchester M1 2HG Edinburgh United Kingdom United Kingdom EH8 8DL T +44 (0)20 7323 5737 T +44 (0)161 883 2544 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] +44 131 285 7370 Bath Brewery 5 Commercial Court Toll Bridge Road Belfast Bath BA1 7DE BT1 2NB United Kingdom United Kingdom T +44 (0)1225 852 545 T +44 (0)28 9099 2760 [email protected] [email protected] www.fcbstudios.com Great Eastern Quays Phase 2 Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios is an architectural and urban design practice with an international reputation for design quality, for pioneering environmental expertise and a progressive architectural approach. From large-scale urban design to the all-important incidental spaces in our buildings, architecture can have a positive impact on society and humanity. We create buildings and spaces that develop our culture and enhance our communities. It’s also a way of life for us and gives us a platform from which to engage in wider social issues from a cycling culture to a stance on creative education and an approach to heritage in the built environment. We started small 40 years ago and have grown to over 200 staff. We continue to be committed to social and humanistic values in our work and are proud to have won the RIBA Stirling Prize for Accordia, a scheme which is widely regarded as setting a new benchmark for housing in the UK. Since our inception, we have pioneered designs that have a light touch on the planet, low in carbon and energy-use: a new minimalism that helps us and our clients to mitigate the impact of climate change. While low-energy design is no longer radical, it is more important than ever. Our interest in reducing both embodied energy and whole lifecycle energy consumption, and our commitment to the wider social aspects of sustainability still mark us out as leaders in environmental design. FCBStudios Affordable Housing The chronic shortfall in new housing is now a vital issue and we believe that an emphasis on design quality should be at the forefront of new initiatives. Our long track record in designing for sustainability equips us to join in the pursuit of zero carbon housing and we are actively engaged in designing for minimum environmental impact. We design buildings that are responsive to different patterns of living and provide intimacy, privacy and security whilst also helping to create a sense of community. Much of our work has a strong social agenda and consequently we acknowledge the value of Affordable and Social housing as part of diverse and sustainable communities. Our long established working relationship with housing providers has ensured that we understand the need for a commitment to high quality building fabric whilst also ensuring best value for residents. We believe this approach offers a more insightful understanding of sustainability which can more effectively create vibrant and dynamic neighbourhoods. Our affordable and social housing schemes draw on our collective experience and reflect closely our client’s ambitions and budget, whilst also responding to the opportunities that each site has to offer. These projects therefore range in density, scale and tenure to suit each individual condition and the sample of projects in this brochure reflects this. Furthermore, our projects also explore appropriate opportunities for standardisation and innovative modular and offsite forms of construction, something that, along with the low carbon agenda, we continuing to develop. Beaufort Court, Fulham London Pioneering modular As a model of modern affordable housing, this project epitomises the government’s housing agenda: high density with accommodation split between shared ownership, key worker and rental provision. The scheme consists of 65 units of housing on a restricted urban site, located within an active area of residential, retail and commercial uses. The unit sizes range from one bedroom flats to large family houses. The scheme also contains an element part-sponsored by the Rough Sleepers Initiative, supporting this disadvantaged sector of the community to live independently. New communal facilities, including a Tenant’s Meeting Room and an all-weather play court, unite the new development with the adjacent 1912 Peabody housing estate. There is a strong sustainability agenda with the building fabric providing a high thermal and acoustic performance. Beaufort Court demonstrates innovation in construction methods: it was the first social housing project in the UK to incorporate three off-site fabrication approaches in one scheme: a prefabricated steel load-bearing system incorporating large-scale cold-rolled panels, large-scale hot-rolled elements, and three-dimensional modular construction. It is also one of the first significant projects to reach completion using the PPC 2000 partnering contract, a concept which depends on giving everyone a sense of co-ownership of the project; working systems were transparent and information was open and shared. “The construction is highly innovative. The dwellings themselves are skillfully planned, Awards 2004 Housing Design Award far exceeding current building regulations standards. With provision for rental, shared 2004 The Housing Corporation’s Best Example of Affordable Housing ownership, key workers, rehabilitation and disability, this is a significant pacemaker in 2004 Building for Life Awards Gold Standard so many areas for the new generation of social housing.” 2004 National HomeBuilders Award 2005 Best Social Housing Scheme Housing Design Awards 2004 Beaufort Court Great Eastern Quays Phase 2 London Medium density FCBStudios’ scheme forms the second phase of the Notting Hill Genesis development and is made up of 468 new homes, 32% of which will be affordable housing and 2400sqm of commercial units, including buildings ranging from four to eleven storeys. The mix of commercial and residential buildings at Royal Albert Wharf will seamlessly fuse the old with the new, while inspired architecture and landscaping will ensure an attractive, dynamic environment. The strong, traditional, urban structure of streets and blocks creates a new community that stitches into the existing urban fabric and local communities. By positively addressing the stretch of waterfront to the east, the development will establish a tangible sense of place through the physical and environmental context, its history and its potential future use. Great Eastern Quays will form a brand new neighbourhood in the Royal Albert Wharf area of East London: a vibrant, thriving and sustainable community in an historic riverside setting. The historic Royal Docks form the largest enclosed docks in the world, surrounding nearly 250 acres of water. This exemplar scheme will benefit from its prominent river location, creating a new high-density, high-quality residential quarter with neighbouring developments. The whole area is set to gain over 9,000 new homes by 2027. Great Eastern Quays Phase 2 Gallions 2b Gallions 2b London Medium density Gallions Quarter 2b is the final part of the Gallions Quarter masterplan and is part of Notting Hill Genesis’ Royal Albert Wharf development in Newham. The regeneration scheme is the first to be delivered under the New London Plan and addresses London’s requirement for housing, putting a total of 1856 new homes onto a well connected, brownfield site. This third plot within Royal Albert Wharf follows on from the precedent set by Gallions Quarter 3b and Great Eastern Quays Phase 2, using a strong, traditionally urban plan of streets and blocks which stitches into the wider masterplan. Designed to relate to the developing context through a clean and modern aesthetic and consistency of colour and materials, the high-density housing is balanced by varied public and residential landscaped areas. These link together to make safe and enjoyable routes through the development and encourage a vibrant, thriving and sustainable community within the historic riverside setting of The Royal Docks. FCBStudios’ housing-led scheme will provide 267 new homes - 51% of which will be affordable and 40% of which will be family units. Gallions 2b Gallions 3b London Medium density The proposed riverside neighbourhood is the latest development within the residential Royal Albert Wharf area of East London and was one of the first London Plan projects commissioned by the GLA. The site is heavily constrained, with a Port of London Authority Radar Mast on site, height restrictions imposed by the close proximity to London City Airport, a safeguarded future Thames Gateway site to the North for a bridge or tunnel and the river wall to the East all impacting on the potential for development. Our design responds to these factors through height, massing and landscaping to introduce a strong urban structure of streets and blocks intended to establish a new emerging community that stitches into the existing masterplan. A series of design principles have been established which allow the buildings to be read individually, but also to form part of a common typology across both the site and in line with the emerging Royal Albert Wharf context. The scheme provides 238 homes across four blocks from 3-12 storeys high of which 50% of the accommodation, by habitable room, is affordable. A range of public spaces are to be provided both along the river and through the scheme. 30% of the accommodation is to be 3-4 bedroom family units and as a result, much of the focus for the landscaping has been on pedestrian and cycle prioritised public space, high-quality landscaping and play for children of all ages. Gallions 3b Sherwood Close London Estate Regeneration The Sherwood close project is a regeneration initiative being developed by the Affinity Sutton Group in collaboration with the London Borough of Ealing, the existing residents as well as the West Ealing Neighbourhood Forum.