Stonebridge Hillside Hub
The Stonebridge Hillside Hub is a key scheme in the continuing
regeneration of the Stonebridge Estate in West London. It is a major resource for the 4,000 strong culturally-diverse local community; it aims to bring people together, improve local health, enable educational, leisure and community initiatives, encourage investment in the local housing market, provide much-needed retail space and give a new focus to a previously deprived part of the borough. The mixed use building provides a health centre, a community centre, a convenience store, a café, open-market and shared-ownership apartments, private car parking, a garden and a public piazza. Extensive consultation with the users and the local community was a hallmark of this scheme’s development. The building replaces a derelict multi-storey car park that attracted serious crime and anti-social behaviour. It is formed of two six-storey wings joined by a three-storey community centre - a strongly articulated central building with a curved zinc roof and a private landscaped garden at the rear. The lower three storeys of the west wing contain a Primary Care Trust health centre (NEAT Excellent). The lower two storeys of the east wing house a new convenience store with a two-storey car park at the rear. The four upper floors of both wings contain a tenure blind mix of shared ownership and privately owned apartments.
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The development has been singled out for several awards, including
the Mail on Sunday British Homes Awards - Mixed-use Regeneration Development of the Year; Wood Awards - Structural Category: Highly Commended; Regeneration & Renewal Awards: Shortlisted; Building Awards Housing Project of the Year: Shortlisted. The Contractor received a Considerate Contractors Bronze Award, as well as achieving the target of 20% of the workforce recruited from the local community for this scheme. Timber is used extensively throughout. The larch cladding
was designed to achieve three scales of grain: Firstly, Siberian larch was specified for its tight, uniform grain.
Sapwood was excluded and the untreated wood should weather to a consistent silver grey. Secondly, the elevation was separated into bands of horizontal boards
separated from each other by zones containing vertically fixed boards and windows. The horizontal timbers run around the cantilevered balconies wrapping them into the composition and the overall effect is of large scale vertical and horizontal grains woven together. Thirdly, two differing sizes of horizontal cladding board were used. Again, this gives the façade a textured ‘corduroy’ feel of light and shade
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