4 housing tasks, together with an residence advanced in east London and a improvement for the aged in Yorkshire, have been shortlisted for RIBA’s 2023 Neave Brown Award for Housing.
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) introduced that A Home for Artists by Apparata Architects, New Lodge Group by PRP, Agar Grove Section 1b by Mae and Taylor Court docket, Chatto Court docket and Wilmott Court docket on the Frampton Park Property by Henley Halebrown have been shortlisted for the prize.
The prize is an annual award that acknowledges main examples of reasonably priced homes in the UK. It was created in honour of acclaimed modernist architect and social housing trailblazer Neave Brown following his loss of life in 2018.
The 2023 shortlist was chosen by a panel of judges that features Peter Barber Architects director Alice Brownfield, affiliate director at Maccreanor Lavington Prisca Thielmann and son of Neave Brown and design director at Smith & Brown Aaron Brown.
A Home for Artists by Apparata Architects is an residence advanced in Barking, east London that was designed to supply low-cost housing and workspaces for 12 artists and their households.
The constructing is a five-storey concrete construction with a kind that includes a set of stacked shapes, volumes and openings. It contains 12 flats that sit alongside artist studios, workspaces, neighborhood areas and a shared work yard.
New Lodge Group is a improvement for the aged in Yorkshire, which was created by PRP. The undertaking noticed the structure studio redevelop an space of York’s New Earswick Backyard Village to create a neighbourhood that consists of 44 reasonably priced care flats.
The event features a sequence of pink brick townhouses which might be topped with steep roofs and huge dormers, that are related by hedge-lined walkways and open inexperienced areas.
“The architectural method was impressed by the native arts and crafts vernacular, reinterpreting the important thing traits of the native conservation space,” mentioned the jury. “These embody steep roofscapes, characteristic chimneys, recessed porch entries and constant use of brickwork and tiles.”
Agar Grove Section 1b by structure studio Mae is a regenerative masterplan consisting of 57 new properties, together with 34 stacked marionettes, in Camden, north London.
Three housing blocks had been organized round a paved courtyard, which offers residents with accessible out of doors area. As soon as full, the event is about to turn into the UK’s largest Passivhaus scheme.
“An bold mannequin of low power, Passivhaus social housing that follows within the footsteps of previous Camden architects, Mae’s housing provides area, selection and beneficiant landscaping,” mentioned the jury quotation.
In Hackney, three blocks designed by Henley Halebrown – Taylor Court docket, Chatto Court docket and Wilmott Court docket – on the Frampton Park Property had been additionally shortlisted for the award.
Taylor & Chatto Courts encompass 16 social-rent properties and 4 shared-ownership properties which might be set inside three, five-storey villas. Wilmott Court docket consists of a five-storey palazzo that accommodates 15 shared possession and 10 private-tenure properties.
The winner of this yr’s Neave Brown Award for Housing will likely be introduced on the RIBA Stirling Prize ceremony that takes place on Thursday 19 October 2023 on the Victoria Warehouse in Manchester.
“It is a actually thrilling shortlist illustrating that housing design has a big position to play in serving to tackle wider societal points and, furthermore, that social and reasonably priced housing is usually on the forefront of this,” mentioned Brownfield.
“At a time when the price of dwelling is among the many most urgent problems with the day, these examples of reasonably priced housing define potentialities for a greater future,” mentioned RIBA president Simon Allford. “We’d like extra properties, which might be higher designed by way of amenity, carbon, context, neighborhood and tradition – we should deal with all of them.”
“Collectively, these schemes assist increase the bar for structure with objective, exhibiting how forward-thinking design can enrich the lives of each residents and the broader neighborhood,” he continued.
Final yr’s Neave Brown Award for Housing was awarded to Hackney New Main College and 333 Kingsland Street, which was designed by Henley Halebrown.
The undertaking was amongst three different buildings shortlisted within the 2022 award, Peter Barber Architect’s Kiln Place and John Pardey Architect’s Lovedon Fields had been additionally shortlisted.
