05 – Design Response and Building Programme

View south east onto buildings from retail car park

The double banked layouts of efficiently planned apartments allows a generous and open elevational treatment which is also exploited by maximising the opportunity for large glazed screens to all flats opening out onto their own private balconies at upper levels and garden terraces at ground floor, which, along with the provision of well-planned internal common amenity spaces, common gardens and various roof terrace gardens, helps deliver real and useable amenity.

Additional social spaces are given prime locations at the top floor leading corners with fully glazed enclosures to contribute to an expression of significance and provide great aspects south west back to the City and north east to the landscape beyond.

The stepped massing of both blocks allows for generous communal roof gardens at 5th and 6th floors giving desired outside amenity space to all residents, improving the sunlight and sky aspect across and through the site, and providing visual interest to the roofline and townscape.