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<\/p>\nThe scheme for Hackney Council comprises two six-storey residential buildings at Buckland Court and Cropley Court, two housing estates south of Shoreditch Park, in Hoxton.<\/p>\n
The homes will be arranged radially around central cores and accessed via lobbies, each having access to a \u2018room-like\u2019 balcony. The majority of the homes \u2014 65 per cent \u2014 will be for social rent, while 35 per cent will be shared ownership.<\/p>\n
The Buckland Court housing will feature red-brown brick fa\u00e7ades, with windows vertically aligned and separated by brick piers, as well as red metalwork and precast concrete columns at the building entrance.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Cropley Court homes will, meanwhile, have pale grey brickwork, use darker recessed pointing for piers and green metalwork for window frames and balconies, and have precast concrete columns at ground level.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Axonometric showing both sites in relation to each another<\/p>\n
Sergison Bates described the local area as \u2018unusual in the uniformity of its housing stock, which was almost entirely rebuilt in the mid-20th century, comprising 12 contiguous Modernist housing estates sometimes fronted by blank gables and linear blocks whose plans often ignore the historic street pattern\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It added: \u2018The proposed new buildings aim to enhance the area\u2019s character while addressing its shortcomings by transforming the expansive but often undefined outdoor spaces into gardens and courts overlooked by homes, designed to invite community use and foster a sense of belonging.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
The practice was one of six appointed by Hackney Council to design<\/a> a combined total of 400 affordable homes\u00a0 in 2024<\/a>. Housing by Archio, Citizens Design Bureau, Haworth Tompkins and Al-Jawad Pike is also set to be delivered across a further 12 sites.\u00a0<\/p>\n Sergison Bates founding partner Stephen Bates said: \u2018Our aim with these proposals is to create homes that are both sustainable and welcoming, while strengthening the qualities of the sites.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u2018By carefully shaping the surrounding green spaces, we hope to foster a sense of community and belonging that extends beyond the front door.\u2019<\/p>\n Project team<\/p>\n Structural engineer\u00a0Momentum Engineering
Landscape architect Farrer Huxley
Community engagement and consultation\u00a0POoR Collective
Energy\/sustainability\/M&E\/air quality\/daylight-sunlight XCO2
Quantity surveyor\u00a0Exigere
Planning consultant\u00a0HTA Design
Transport consultant SLR
Fire consultant\u00a0Trigon
Ecology consultant TMA
Acoustics consultant\u00a0Noise Solutions\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The scheme for Hackney Council comprises two six-storey residential buildings at Buckland Court and Cropley Court, two housing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-133809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}