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dhirajsalhotra@gmail.com

MASS HOUSING PROJECTGUIDELINES

FORSUSTAINABLE AND APPROPRIATE

HOUSING DESIGN

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Examples of strategies for storing recycling and waste in higher density housing schemes:

Storage integrated with entrances and front gardens to houses, as in this example of a terraced townhouse.

Housing developments should include adequate provision for recycling facilities, both inside the home and around the site. This means that homesneed to be provided with areas where materials can be sorted and stored prior to being collected for recycling, and bin stores will often need to containroom for 2, 3 or more bins per dwelling, unless communal recycling is provided. Additionally, areas within the public realm will need to be set asidefor extensive recycling facilities and such facilities will need to be provided in locations that are easily accessible by all residents, while not causing anuisance.

Appropriate recycling facilities

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Appropriate recycling facilities

If access is provided with a laneway to the rear, this shouldbe private for residents’ access only. This may allow servicevehicle access (requiring a through-route or turnabout) orresidents may bring their own bins to the kerbside.

Bins may be stored communally in free-standing structuresin order to avoid clutter at dwellings.

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Creating a sense of belonging by identifiable strong built form

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Good quality architecture and landscaping have been an important element . The visible change from very poor quality, low-density towers to higher quality, higher density houses has helped to change perceptions of the district as a residential neighbourhood.

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An axial route at a residential development exploits a castle to give a unique, local identity to the site.

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A no-through road allowing a continuous pedestrian and cycling route but restricting vehicle movement. It is important that the pedestrian/cycle only route should still be treated as a street with good overlooking and activefrontages.

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Shops and offices with doors to apartments above provide active frontage and a human scale to streets.

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Buildings to back of pavement, parking and planting, generatea people orientated street. Adamstown, Co Dublin

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Activity on a shared surface street .Removing cars and their associated design requirements(kerbs, barriers, markings) signals clearly that this is astreet designed for people and allows for relaxed activity by residents

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Rather than relying on speed bumps, this design drawing for a development uses layout to control traffic speeds with an indirect route, parking layouts and making clear thresholds into a ‘home zone’ street.

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The schematic layout above and below shows buildings used to create a clear, simple range of spaces. Frontages address public spaces and streets while perimeterblocks enclose and control shared private spaces for residents only.

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In this sketch design, semi-private space shared by the dwellings is clearly separated from the public streets, either completely enclosed by terraces or separated by railings.

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This scheme regeneration clearly delineates defensible front gardens facing onto well overlooked public roads, with private gardens to the rear.

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This development encloses a public square while providing walled, private gardens to the rear.

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Parking is treated as part of the landscaping in order to buildthe feel of a residential courtyard rather than a communal car park. The detail treatment (e.g. low kerbs and cobble paving) helps build the sense that this space has been designed for the needs of residents rather than cars

Clear consideration and definition of streets and parking areas.

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Widefronted,shallow units provide advantages in extendability and natural daylighting. Narrow-fronted ,deep units can be more efficient in block layout.

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in this example are designed so that occupiers can add athird storey as the need might arise in the future. The consideration of this potential in advance creates a streetscape which, while varied, still reads as a coherent whole

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allows conversion of rooms or different floors as needs change.

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The garden can become an extension of the living space, both in use and visually, if barriers are minimized between them.

Different types of private outdoor space for an apartment scheme including balconies of auseable size

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can allow a greater proportion of dual aspect dwellings, if carefully designed.

The requirements of the urban block and the hierarchy of streets are considered, while maximizing the dual aspect units in this proposal for housing.

The use of wide fronted units can allow for a greater degree of light and dual aspect to more rooms and activities,

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Winter gardens, used here on the street elevation of upper level apartments, can provide a buffer to outside noise.

Example of angled windows used to avoid views into adjacent apartments,

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External storage to ground floor duplex apartments.

Recycling storage integrated into the front garden of a terraced house.

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A higher density development with basement parking within the footprint of the buildings.

A lower-density development providing surface parking in a combination of on-street spaces and spaces within well over-looked courtyards

Parking overlooked on street in front of apartments

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Car parking concealed within the landscape and activities of a multi-use space.

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