University of Liverpool: School of Architecture

摘要

Students worked with live brief and clients Safe Regeneration Liverpool to masterplan its site alongside the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Bootle, a borough of Liverpool, once a wealthy town, exists currently as a mix of inward-facing estates fragmented by traffic and industry, with a severe shortage of green space. This detailed proposal provides 30 terraced homes as part of a wider masterplan to transform it into a new community of affordable housing for local people. It highlights the richness of green space and symbiotic development. Communal areas provide protected places for children to play in, while the overall design emphasises the need for shared resources and social gatherings. Swales and surface gradients guide surface water to rain gardens and ponds, where it is absorbed and filtered. Numerous means of habitat creation, including fruit tree groves and personal greenhouses, provide valuable amenities to occupants. In beautifully drawn depictions, this project has carefully crafted moments of flexible spatial experience, combining responses to economic, climatic and social challenges into a manifesto, strategy and detailed propositions. Transitions from public to private domains across thresholds are subtle, accessible, low-impact and humane and the proposal offers layers of delightful moments and mechanisms to achieve and exceed the brief. This is an understated, careful and elegantly communicated project.