Innovative Suburban Housing

Collaborating Architect
Ruth Catalan

Shortlisted entry for the RIBA/Wates Group design competition for flexible housing in the private rental sector. This is a vision for a suburban community created around the culture of gardening and the allotment. The growing practice of sharecropping, continuing demand for allotments and the British love of gardening is seen as a way of building a cohesive sense of community through the care and cultivation of gardens and small-scale crops. ZONE Architects proposed a continuous field of horticulture as the setting for neighbourly and flexible living.

The site is organised in a loose formation of terraces interleaved with allotments, private and shared gardens and orchard. Houses are orientated to the south for maximum solar gain. The central street is conceived of as a river flowing through the site with leafy swales interspersed with (shop)houses which provide flexible home working accommodation.

Address

211 Granton Road, 
Edinburgh EH5 1HD

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