LULU Y5 Student Projects: A Terraces House in Edgeley

In order to meet a wider diversity of housing needs and ensure a mix of demographics throughout any urban area, we need to think more creatively about how to offer housing capable of meeting the needs of a broader range of people. In particular, there is a challenge to be addressed about how to maintain a diversity of demographics in our city centres. So how do we offer housing that is simultaneously dense enough to achieve developers’ profit requirements, young families and older couples in our city centres and robust enough to be adaptable over time.

Could one possible response be the terraced house? This typology has been used for hundreds of years and has endured because of its robust urban design qualities and adaptability to different users’ needs and different times. Its ability to achieve mid-density in a low-rise form has led it to receive renewed attention from designers, developers and local authorities.Through a Masterplanning Masterclass (separate brief provided) you will first collectively develop

Following the whole group masterplanning process, students worked within smaller groups to refine the parameters of the housing block:

Defining the public, communal and private thresholds as part of the open space design.
Exploring different approaches to the sustainable development of a housing site, which are socially, environmentally and economically responsive.

Having established the group masterplan and open spaces, each student was allocated an individual client brief and a plot within it, to develop an innovative and technologically resolved terraced house. Here is some the great work produced by this year's Y5 students.

Groupwork: