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Intelligence | Athletes’ Village ENVELOPE

So now we know all about the fields of play, but what about housing the athletes, and using the homes after they’ve gone? This goes beyond looking good

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ALMA STREET ATHLETESVILLAGE INCIDENT & INJURY FREE: THE LEND LEASE WAY KEY PLAN

TOP RIGHT: The 36ha Stratford City site looking north west shows the scale and density of the Athletics Village development.

ABOVE: A section through the block and courtyard gives the strategy of using the 3-storey townhouse module to mask the car park at ground level.

THE SHEER SCALE of the 2012 Athlete’s Village in the Lee Valley is the first thing that hits you. Perhaps it’s because we are used to the forms of blocks and towers of housing built in the 1960s and 70s, interspersed in great tracts of functionless landscaping. But this looks and feels different; the sense is that this is urban architecture straight out of France or Spain – as if a new housing model has been imported for the Olympics. But whatever the thinking, the Village is going up fast. Covering 36 of Stratford City’s 73ha, creating 2,800 townhouses and apartments and costing over £500m, with the same again spent on the infrastructure to serve it, this is London’s newest urban residential quarter. As Jonathan Kendall, partner at architect Fletcher Priest which is co-ordinating the master planning, and ODA project sponsor for the Athletes’ Village Paul Hartmann explain, the situation is unprecedented. ‘What

we are doing is insane – no-one in the UK has developed at this scale or pace before, especially with adaptable housing that has to work in both games and legacy modes,’ says Hartmann. Kendall says the 10 huge city blocks will be home to nearly 18,000 athletes, and then converted to house 10,000 people. Supporting this new community will be Stratford station, the largest shopping centre in Europe, a new health centre and a school. And all this, including covering a huge section of existing railway line with a new concrete roof to unify the site, will have been completed in just over three years. To meet the 2012 deadline planning logistics, programme, materials and processes had to be streamlined; and Hartmann says minimising risk on the project meant using ‘tried and tested methods’. All blocks had the same performance criteria, and the 2008 zonal masterplan following the 2005 outline consent

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