Winchelsea Road
Winchelsea Road
Affordable Family Accommodation.
Scheme
2 bed 3 storey house
Location
Haringey
THE BRIEF.
Pinchin Architects have been appointed by the London Borough of Haringey to collaborate on an ambitious programme to deliver 1,000 homes at council rents by 2022. We are proud to be working with a group of specialist consultants and key stakeholders to help them realise these bold targets. We will analyse and develop designs for 9 sites in their programme, ranging in scale from single houses in the Noel Park Conservation area to a 9 storey multi-unit tower in Wood Green.
THE HOUSE.
The proposal seeks to create a contemporary end of terrace property which uses the constraints of the site to its advantage, enabling the property to be a distinctive new addition to the local townscape. The new house has been designed to safeguard neighbouring residential amenity and in particular to minimise overlooking and overshadowing of adjoining properties. The proposal sits directly on the street so the northern elevation has been designed with narrow slot windows and a recessed porch to afford privacy to the property whilst still providing sufficient daylight.
The proposed house will provide a two-bedroom, four-person dwelling, with an internal floor area of 89m2 on a site which presents unique design challenges in terms of its end of terrace location and the presence of a single-storey extension to the adjoining property on Winchelsea Road. The thin and narrow plan form of the site, along with the single-storey neighbouring extension meant that building a conventional end of terrace house that book-ends the row of terrace houses was not possible.
This led us to develop an innovate and strongly defined concept that allows the new building to follow the roof lines and position of its neighbours and yet is completely distinctive and modern in appearance.
