Swedish studio White Arkitekter has completed an assortment of apartment buildings for the latest phase of the Gascoigne Estate regeneration in Barking, east London.
Led by the Barking and Dagenham council and developed by urban regeneration company Be First, the West Phase 2 development encompasses 386 homes arranged across five apartment blocks.
The project also includes 31 townhouses that are interspersed with communal courtyards and a 1,500-square-metre playground.
White Arkitekter has completed new homes for the Gascoigne Estate regeneration
Addressing the council's ambition to regenerate Barking as "one of London's greenest, most affordable and sustainable neighbourhoods", White Arkitekter drew on Scandinavian urban design principles of equitable living, climate resilience and wellbeing for the redevelopment. This strategy involved the studio designing tenure blind homes ? homes that are a mix of social and private housing but all have the same design.
Sixty per cent of these are affordable and 10 per cent are wheelchair accessible, and the studio also created a landscaped public realm for the community.
The studio drew on Scandinavian design principles for the development
"The challenge was delivering high-density, tenure blind homes on a relatively small site while also creating opportunities for framed courtyards to enable smaller community groups to share gardens," studio partner Linda Thiel told Dezeen.
"Using our Scandinavian design pri...