Wednesday, 08 August 2007 14:53
Winning Designs
Stride Treglown have been winning and shortlisted for two recent design comptetitions.
Tomorrow's Garden City: A Sustainable Approach to Modern Living
Stride Treglown has won an international housing design competition, beating nearly 70 other entries to win‚ £10,000 and the prospect of seeing the design built. The competition entitled Tomorrow's Garden City: A Sustainable Approach to Modern Living was for a prototype housing module which is planned to be incorporated in a future Letchworth Garden City development, was sponsored by Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation and North Hertfordshire Homes in partnership with the RIBA.
Stride Treglown's entry for a 'grown home' is a 100 sqm south facing terrace home, designed to be high quality, low cost and environmentally friendly. At its core, the design seeks to blur the boundary between house and garden. This is achieved at a basic level by incorporating a plant screen on to the south facing sunspace and a sedum roof. The relationship is furthered by using natural grown materials such as timber, hemp and sedum. The sense that the house is physically and metaphorically rooted to the ground, the seasons and nature extends the tradition of the garden city movement.
The design builds on the practice's established portfolio of sustainable buildings, notably Great Bow Yard, a riverside development of twelve eco-homes in Langport, Somerset.
Cooling Towers Site Competition
Stride Treglown was also recently shortlisted in a second open ideas competition: the Cooling Towers Site Competition organised by the RIBA Competitions Office on behalf of Groundwork Sheffield sought imaginative ideas for the potential re-use of a derelict brownfield site dominated by the two tier Tinsley Viaduct and two unused cooling towers.
The team's idea for Tinsley Energy and Ecological Park replaces the original eight cooling towers with eight large vertical-axis wind turbines. The trajectories of the turbines blades evoke the ghosts of the eight towers, continuing their memory in an evocative but productive way; the towers are reborn as renewable and non-polluting icons for the 21st century.
The proposal made it to the final sixteen displayed at a public exhibition at the Meadowhall Shopping Centre in Sheffield.