32 PROJECT REPORT: MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS All images © Paul Riddle


A Places for Girls workshop held with a local school established what safe outdoor spaces would look like


with a local school established what safe outdoor spaces would look like. ternal saces in the finished schee are now being used much more by residents, when formerly they had become a source of fear.


Jacob Willson praises the architects’ work, which aligned with Be First’s aspirations in terms of both sustainability and spatial quality. “There’s a lot of really positive design aspects of this scheme in terms of having very clear front and back doors, private and public spaces.” He says that people were previously fearful of going through certain spaces, and struggled to navigate the estate, “but a lot of those issues were addressed by White Arkitekter in having very active street- based architecture.”


The various buildings in Phase 1 all have reinforced concrete frames but a mix of facades, however the majority


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have a brick facade to tie in with the local residential buildings. A light colour brick mix was chosen for Phase 1, softening the blocks’ presence along Abbey Road. rick in a darker hue was secified on round oors, and adacent arts of the elevations (either side of the ‘kinks’ in facades) have subtle differences in the look of their brickwork. This is thanks to altering the mortar colour, to break down the mass of the facades, but still give an overall coherence.


CONSTRUCTION


In Phase 1 some offsite/MMC construction methods were used to aid fast and accurate construction, such as fully tiled pod bathrooms, utility cupboards, and balconies, supplied by Sapphire. Ben Addison explains that the logistics were tricky for bringing in vehicles to site, however “we were


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