St Georges Wolverhampton 2024–

St George's presents a key regeneration opportunity in Wolverhampton's city centre, envisioned as a green quarter on the east fringe. The scheme reimagines the ring road as a central park, with a new Public Avenue, green streets, and garden courts converging on the renovated St George's Church. A repurposed supermarket structure forms a vibrant commercial and social hub around a central garden.

With gallery access, buildings are efficient, homes dual aspect and cross ventilated. The project is a competition entry with Studio Weave and Apparata for Capital&Centric and Wolverhampton City.

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    Planted amenity loggias will activate the Public Avenue. Formed from simply constructed freestanding structures, animating the relatively economic construction of the buildings
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    Impact of the Ring Road
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    The enclosure of the Supermarket Square creates a sheltered microclimate accommodating a luscious central garden, within which clearings could be made to create social spaces supporting the mix of shops, bars and cafes, and workshops that surround it
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    A new Public Avenue and a variety of green streets and garden courts are shaped by courtyard buildings
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    A sequence of gardens & courtyard homes form a green, permeable framework for the new neighbourhood. Courtyard blocks to the east and linear blocks to the west define a new Public Avenue
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    Ground floor layout
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    The Church Square creates a generous civic space in front of the Grade II listed St George’s Church, suitable for assembly and events
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    New Public Avenue – Approaching the site from the station will be many peoples first view of the development. Here a vista towards St George’s has been opened up at the north end of the new Public Avenue
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    Typical floor layout
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    The loggias to the street are constructed with solidity, in materials such as pre-cast concrete, while inside the courtyards the decks are constructed using light weight industrial steel elements
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    The façades of the apartment buildings create playful variety to the street using a play set of different column shapes, planters and balustrades, contributing to a characterful and varied streetscape
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    The development connects the city centre with the Hospital site to the east, creating a new Public Avenue from the station, through the site and around the perimeter of the city to St John’s in the Square and beyond

Technical

  • Appointment: 2024
  • Completion: 2024
  • Form of contract: Competition
  • Client: Capital&Centric
  • Collaborating Architect: Studio Weave
  • Collaborating Architect:: Apparata
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