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Encouraging practitioners to design homes for sustainability and wellbeing
RIBA recently published ‘Healthy Homes: Designing with light and air for sustainability and wellbeing,’ which supports the argument that design solutions focused on sustainability should also positively impact the health and wellbeing of building occupants. RIBA commented: “Intense interest in health and wellbeing in architecture may actually be relatively new, but many of the considerations relating to these in terms of design – temperature, air quality, noise and lighting – have a long history in design literature, for architects, engineers and urban designers.”
“While currently a front-page issue in design advice for the workplace, designing for residential buildings, particularly high density and affordable housing has not been as readily explored,” the publishers added. Considering the home as the most important space where people spend time, Healthy Homes explores “new areas of research and knowledge in relation to designing for wellbeing that haven’t yet touched mainstream environmental design,” including circadian rhythms, regular access to nature, social wellbeing and mental health.
Co-author Nick Baker and course tutor at the Architectural Association, said: “The only certainty of the future is that housing design will face ever growing environmental challenges. We believe that adaptability and evidence-based design responses will hold the key to success.” The book applies these key considerations to a range of areas from urban and neighbourhood design to architecture and material considerations.
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Waugh Thistleton estate in Hackney given go-ahead
Waugh Thistleton Architects’ design for the Kennaway Estate in east London was recently approved when councillors for the London Borough of Hackney voted in favour of Southern Housing Group’s proposal to regenerate the estate. The scheme will deliver 61 new homes, enhance the existing natural landscape, and create designated pedestrian routes, play spaces, cycle storage facilities and other amenities. An “exciting new workspace and much needed community centre will help ensure that the scheme benefits the whole neighbourhood,” said the architects. The 12 existing homes at Taverner House will be replaced by 61 new homes of between one and four bedrooms, together with new landscaping that will “enhance and reinforce pedestrian connections across the site.” More than 50 per cent of the new homes provided will be affordable, comprising a mix of tenures including
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social rent, Hackney living rent, shared ownership, and outright sale.
In collaboration with Source Partnership, Southern Housing Group consulted extensively with estate residents and neighbours during the design development to ensure a “sensitive and characterful building proposal.” Southern Housing Group has also created a Residents’ Charter that provides residents with assurances and security that protects their tenancy and offers them the ‘right to return.’ The proposed development is comprised of three distinct volumes linked by external walkways, and seven townhouses that echo the form and character of adjacent Victorian terraces. External materials and detailing take their inspiration from the immediate surroundings, “ensuring that the building will sit comfortably within its context overlooking Clissold Park.”
ADF DECEMBER 2019
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