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CULLINAN STUDIO Highgrove Housing The Highgrove social housing scheme was a radical break with the traditional Local Authority narrow-fronted house. The Highgrove housing development was designed on an eight acre ﬁeld on the leafy edge of surburban Ruislip for the London Borough of Hillingdon Council. Wide-fronted houses were designed in groups of four, wherein each house opened onto a large garden. The quadripartite houses had garages, bathrooms, cupboards, stairs and landings in the low back of the section. The main room spaces were side-by-side along the garden frontage, with ceilings sloping up to the cill level of the ﬂoor above. The main rooms (cooking, eating, sitting) could be used as open plan, or divided as the occupant chose. These main rooms opened out onto the garden, forming one of its boundaries. The other garden boundaries were hedged-in. These hedges, with a grid of paths, roads and trees, made a formal landscape with uneven edges. HIGHGROVE HOUSING Location: Hillingdon, London, UK Client: London Borough of Hillingdon Appointed: 1972 Completed: 1977 Construction cost: £XXm No. of units: 113 Density: 136 persons per hectare Above: Using a high density layout based on a grid of roads, paths and alleyways, a strong sense of order has been created within an otherwise suburban environment. Above: The houses are laid out to create a more suburban division of land than traditional terraces; instead of travelling to your allotment, the allotment came to your house. Above: The corners of the roofs are extended to provide a triangular covered areas; the gutter runs down the raking edge and discharges into water butts made from pre- cast concrete drainage pipes.

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Page 1: CULLINAN STUDIOcullinanstudio.com/uploads/documents/Highgrove_CaseStudy.pdf · The Highgrove housing development was designed on an eight acre field on the leafy edge of surburban

CULLINAN STUDIOHighgrove Housing

The Highgrove social housing scheme was a radical break with the traditional Local Authority narrow-fronted house.

The Highgrove housing development was designed on an eight acre field on the leafy edge of surburban Ruislip for the London Borough of Hillingdon Council.

Wide-fronted houses were designed in groups of four, wherein each house opened onto a large garden.

The quadripartite houses had garages, bathrooms, cupboards, stairs and landings in the low back of the section. The main room spaces were side-by-side along the garden frontage, with ceilings sloping up to the cill level of the floor above.

The main rooms (cooking, eating, sitting) could be used as open plan, or divided as the occupant chose. These main rooms opened out onto the garden, forming one of its boundaries. The other garden boundaries were hedged-in.

These hedges, with a grid of paths, roads and trees, made a formal landscape with uneven edges.

HIGHGROVE HOUSING

Location: Hillingdon, London, UKClient: London Borough of Hillingdon

Appointed: 1972Completed: 1977Construction cost: £XXmNo. of units: 113Density: 136 persons per hectare

Above: Using a high density layout based on a grid of roads, paths and alleyways, a strong sense of order has been created within an otherwise suburban environment.

Above: The houses are laid out to create a more suburban division of land than traditional terraces; instead of travelling to your allotment, the allotment came to your house.

Above: The corners of the roofs are extended to provide a triangular covered areas; the gutter runs down the raking edge and discharges into water butts made from pre-cast concrete drainage pipes.