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Arnold Road London 2016–

The scheme commissioned by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets creates 62 affordable homes in two mid-rise apartment buildings. 75% are family three and four-bedroom homes and 80% dual aspect. The design of each apartment and private balcony establishes a real parity between inside and outside space which is difficult to achieve without a house and garden and a very rare commodity in multistorey “mass” housing.

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The design proposes two heavy masonry buildings surrounded by interconnecting courtyards and gardens that the buildings shape
Model of south building - its heavy masonry façades incorporate recessed balcony terraces. Each apartment is planned around one of these terraces
The design breaks what might have been one long block into two buildings permitting morning and afternoon light to penetrate between the buildings
Together the buildings frame an entrance courtyard designed to encourage residents to meet and talk, and children to play together
Physical models were used to study the character of the interconnecting courtyards and gardens
The plan maximizes the number of dual aspect flats within an optimum repeating floorplate to simplify the design and construction
All 62 apartments are planned around a terrace like a courtyard house. The terraces characterize the strong connection each apartment has with the “outside world”
Brick and precast concrete façades mirror the monumental Victorian engineering of the adjacent railway viaduct
Ground floor studio workspace activates and animates the street frontages of the buildings

architects Henley Halebrown

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