纽霍尔是 哈洛

“纽霍尔是 demonstrates the added value that good architects can bring to the thorny problem of housing people outside our major cities. By halving the size of the gardens – creating roof terraces in total equalling the land ‘lost’ – the architects fitted an extra eight houses on to the development. This paid for extras such as full-height windows, dedicated studies and convertible roof spaces.

The overall scheme raises the bar for suburban housing so that, 如果模拟, could and should have a significant impact on development across the country.

这本身就是一项了不起的成就. In the context of much of the UK’s new house building it is truly exceptional.——英国皇家彩票365官方网站师协会斯特林奖评委

This project was the result of a competition where Alison invited a developer to join her in a design and development bid for a Phase of the ambitious Newhall development in 哈洛, 埃塞克斯. Her intention was to reinvent the English suburb as a form of Land Art, where the house designs and streetscapes would reflect a sculptural, geometric language and material palette drawn from the development 埃塞克斯 context. The scheme consists of 84 units across four building types; 5 Apartment buildings; 14 Villas; 29 Courtyard 房子 and 7 Terraced 房子 totalling 84 units, 其中26%是负担得起的.

The scheme’s geometric and material consistency was inspired by the powerful roof forms and simple materials of 埃塞克斯’s rural buildings. These geometries bring light into terraced courtyards, 允许屋顶上有房间, permit oblique views to distant landscapes and introduce a sculptural rhythm to the scheme’s streetscapes. All housing types incorporate covered porches; central stair halls; roof terraces; Juliette balconies and cathedral ceilings. Loft spaces are either finished or can be retrofitted by homebuyers as additional bedrooms. Ground floor offices in each house animate the street and express the suburban home as an economically active, multi-functional form of social infrastructure.

The essence of our 纽霍尔是 project is the terraced Courtyard House. These are a radical reconfiguration of the UK’s typical long and narrow 5m x 20m terraced house plot to a 9.5mx10.5米的阴谋. This square plot permits a very wide house footprint, T-shaped with courtyard spaces or ‘outdoor rooms’ that interlock with kitchen/dining and living rooms. A covered front porch creates an important semi-public threshold. 内部, a very generous central hall – a critical element in all ABA house designs -offers both utility and a sense of spaciousness.

别墅为两层, L-shaped in plan to provide a front parking court that maximizes south facing orientation and views to the street/landscape beyond. Covered front porches with balconies give the houses an open and inviting street presence. Central entrance halls lead to an open plan living, kitchen and family room that opens to the garden. Like the Courtyard House, a home office is the ‘shopfront’ facing the street.

Five Apartment blocks form important urban markers at street junctions, 并作为开发的门户. 每间拥有6或8间公寓, their angled geometries give the facades a directionality that responds to orientation, also integrating their larger massing with the highly articulated forms of the adjacent houses. Upper floors clad in brick cantilever over the main entrances to provide a sheltered porch to communal entrances.

The Terraced 房子, are set back on their plots to provide south-facing front gardens. Each end house is pulled forward to create an enclosed ‘courtyard- like’ street. The terraces follow the scheme’s principles of a central hall, 开放式客厅/餐厅和宽敞的卧室, 有一个可转换的阁楼空间. 每栋房子有5个.4 sqm of Photovoltaic roof tiling and rooflights that illuminate the central staircase.

All houses were constructed using prefabricated timber cassettes above a beam and block ground floor. 这panelised, truss-free system permitted ‘room in the roof’ construction so owners can easily convert the attic space. Complete watertight houses were erected in two days. A simple palette of materials brings consistency and coherence to the scheme – black stained Siberian Larch; natural slates; composite windows and painted steel railings. Black porcelain tiled floors provide thermal mass for underfloor and passive solar heating.