Cornish Architects were appointed to develop the design, prepare/submit a reserved matters planning application, discharge planning conditions & implement planning for a mixed use gateway development. The scheme comprised of offices and 177 mixed tenure residential units. The development was sold on to a housing developer with Regional Investments (Guildford) Ltd retaining an interest in the offices.
Project Category: Residential
Glyndwr University
An International open design competition for the development of 500 student residences on the Plas Coch Campus Wrexham. We approached the design with the aim of creating a community with a street pattern which leads from meeting place to meeting place and is interspersed with access locations, to allow points of orientation and social interaction. The residences are arranged in terraces of houses allowing flexibility for phasing as well to create a clear sense of identity and belonging.
This house design allows for all communal living spaces to be at ground floor level to give each house a lively ground floor function and help to provide natural security surveillance. Easy access for visitors separates the potentially noisier activities from bedroom areas and maintains security and privacy to the bedrooms at upper floors.
Modular bedroom units to help ensure the highest control of thermal performance and air-tightness together with ease of construction were proposed to create a student street of houses. Maximising energy efficiency, minimising energy consumption and then addressing the energy usage in a sustainable and cost effective manner whilst
maintaining a very high quality environment, based on passivhaus principles.
Regent’s Park
A comprehensive and bespoke interior bi-lateral conversion/reconstruction and fitting out to create a new home within a Grade 1 Listed Nash Terrace for a Client. The design was completed in collaboration with interior designer Louise Jones.
Finchley Road
The conversion of the upper parts of this building involved a change of use from educational and office uses to provide 9 new flats.
The entrance corridor was renovated creating access to the new homes and the adjoining premises. The new homes were created within the existing building form. The accommodation creates studios, one, two and three bedroom units with a roof level terrace for communal and private amenity space with planting benefitting from a rainwater harvesting watering facility. Bicycle racks are provided in a common lockable store. High levels of acoustic insulation provide good quality residential accommodation on a major thoroughfare.
King Street
A refurbishment and conversion of two derelict upper floors on a high street to provide 4 new homes each with generously sized living rooms and including en-suite facilities to the master bedrooms.
Colindale
Planning permission was gained for a new development of 73 flats and 9 houses on the site of a former warehouse. The development includes a selection of 1, 2 & 3 bedroom flats with commercial space at ground level. The accommodation is arranged around a landscaped courtyard and includes a series of amenity terraces.
Tyler Court
Tunnel form concrete construction was identified as the best method to meet the ClientÃs urgent programme. 339 student rooms set in group flats, each with their own kitchen/living spaces, are arranged in two multi storey blocks set into the sloping ground on the fringe of the campus around a central ‘street’. Cedar cladding breaks down the scale of the units and relates both to the surroundings and long views from the city centre.
Parkwood
The development comprises 92 student flats to provide 520 study bedrooms together with ancillary accommodation and associated external works. The accommodation is arranged around four courtyards with a central support, social and administration facility. The courtyards create a sense of enclosure, belonging and neighbourhood within the development by providing a hierarchy moving from public to private space. The scale, massing and height of the buildings fit well with the existing buildings, site topography and views from the surrounding countryside.
Canada Water
A development of 320 residential units including 25% affordable accommodation arranged around a landscaped courtyard. The buildings range from 7 to 14 storeys responding to immediate surroundings respecting St Paul’s sight lines and the future regeneration intentions for the area. Apartments include 1, 2 and 3 bedroom units each with access to external amenity space.
Palace Wharf
Planning permission for the regeneration of an old Thames side wharf site of circa 0.5 acre to provide 5 new houses & 22 flats, both conversion and new build, (including social housing) in a highly sensitive setting. The site is within a conservation area and addressing heritage and archaeological issues has been critical. The site is also within the Thames flood plain and the design has had to be adapted to meet Environmental Agency’s requirements and design standards for such developments.
