Futures Forum: Plans for Port Royal: mixed development
Futures Forum: Ham Lane Redevelopment Study - a mixed development for Port Royal
Futures Forum: Plans for Port Royal: ideas for 'mixed use' projects >>> the Beddington Zero Energy Development
Futures Forum: Plans for Port Royal: ideas for 'mixed use' projects >>> >>> Burlington's Lake Champlain
The local MP is all for it:
Futures Forum: Plans for Port Royal and the Eastern Town >>> "a wrap-around car park, weaved between starter flats"
With the latest ideas now in book form:
Futures Forum: Port Royal: Envisioning the Ham Sidmouth >>> new book and local entry to architecture competition
The area, after all, has historically been a place of 'mixed' housing, retail, business, industry and hospitality:
Futures Forum: Plans for Port Royal: Eastern Town then and now
Futures Forum: Gerald Counter's Sidmouth: an insight into Eastern Town
But how do we reconcile more housing
Futures Forum: Plans for Port Royal: the draft Local Plan and 30 new homes
... with carparking:
Futures Forum: Sidmouth parking issues: decreasing capacity at Ham Lane
We could always build over and upwards:
Futures Forum: A solution to our housing problems: build on car parks
For example:
Zedfactory unveils car park 'homes on stilts'
Bill Dunster’s Zedfactory has revealed its latest project – homes built on stilts over ground-level car parking bays
The homes are intended to use space in car parks that are left empty overnight. Dunster’s practice has already built one if the ZEDpods in the car park of building science centre BRE in Watford.
Each 22.4m² home, comprising an open-plan kitchen and living area, a double bedroom and a toilet, will sit over two back to back car parking spaces.
SOURCE: ZEDFACTORY
ZEDpod, sketch
The free standing homes are designed to be self-sufficient in energy using built-in PV and battery storage.
Dunster said: ’Many of Britain’s ground level car parks are filled with cars during the day: at stations, schools and colleges, shopping centres, healthcare facilities. But they’re empty at night.
SOURCE: PETER WHITE
SOURCE: PETER WHITE
SOURCE: PETER WHITE
’Meanwhile, many commuters using the trains, students from the colleges, workers serving us in the shops or treating us in the healthcare sector are struggling to find affordable homes.’
A two-person pod would cost around d £65,000,00 to buy, according to the practice.
The practice is currently welcoming people to view the ZEDpod in Watford for open house events on 14 December, 9 January and 7 February.
Zedfactory unveils car park 'homes on stilts' | News | Architects Journal
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