Description
In 2000, S333 collaborating with Stock Woolstencroft won a competition to transform a post war housing area with poorly defined public spaces into an active urban setting. The total project combines 211 housing units of mixed tenure, with additional social infrastructure necessary to intensify this part of the East London borough of Tower Hamlets. The subsequent urban framework for three mixed-use buildings seeks to create a new and clear urban fabric that adds to the urban context in the form of a community centre and retail units along a busy pedestrian link to the DLR station.
A key challenge in inner city living is how one can provide the necessary amenity spaces for large families within a secure domestic setting. In an area under transformation accommodating change is necessary in order to sustain an active urban setting. Design proposal for Block 3 is a new interpretation of the terrace house typology. Proposal pulls in all the traditional forms of amenity, public space, car parking, and private gardens into one building envelope, in a form that covers the extent of the site boundaries.
By locating the car, garden, stairs, and bathrooms in strategic locations, the house can be reorganised to accomodate different uses. Firstly, the different types of outdoor space create a potential to divide the house up into apartments or to separate the ground floor from the upper floors. Secondly, strips of accomodation on the front and back of the upper floors also allow for them to be adapted as living rooms, work spaces or bedrooms.
People
Architect
Civil Engineer
Client
One Housing Group (formally Toynbee Housing Association) and Galliford Try Partnerships
Owner
Time & Place
Status
built
Date
Address
7 Martha St, Shadwell, London E1 2PX, UK
Specifications
Floors
Floors: 4
Height
Height: 12
Staircases
Units per Staircase
Units per Floor
Units
Unit Area
Plot Area
Floor Area Typical
Area Total
Podium Area
Courtyard Area
Ground floor Area
Residents
Parking Spaces
Taxonomy
Organisation
10+, Single Family
Material
Structure
Usage
Housing
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