84 newbuild dwellings for social rent
Following on from Grant Murray's detailed Feasibility Study, the project sees the formation of 84 newbuild 2 storey houses and flats, to a challenging brownfield site on the eastern edge of Easterhouse. The site has significant constraints in terms of existing services, challenging ground conditions, historical mine shafts, and protected wildlife. However, the site also boasts an incredible aspect, with a local nature reserve and the Seven Loch's Wetland Park defining the eastern boundary. Maximising this aspect and overcoming the site constraints to deliver a scheme that is innovative, aspirational, and affordable has been a highly stimulating challenge.
Long terraces have been utilised to maximise the developable area, while novel 'amenity lanes'; landscaped semi-private extensions to the rear gardens; have been created on a scale and ambition rarely tested in Glasgow. 'Upside down' houses have been developed to maximise the site views, with living areas arranged to the first floor. Large areas of open space and a sophisticated network of pedestrian paths, completes a development that will completely regenerate this edge of Easterhouse.
architect: Curtis Hold, Aimee Trainer
client: Lochfield Park Housing Association
cost: £14.1 million
awards:
location: abbeycraig road / allnach place, easterhouse
photography: Alexander Fraser Photography | Grant Murray Architects
84 newbuild dwellings for social rent
Following on from Grant Murray's detailed Feasibility Study, the project sees the formation of 84 newbuild 2 storey houses and flats, to a challenging brownfield site on the eastern edge of Easterhouse. The site has significant constraints in terms of existing services, challenging ground conditions, historical mine shafts, and protected wildlife. However, the site also boasts an incredible aspect, with a local nature reserve and the Seven Loch's Wetland Park defining the eastern boundary. Maximising this aspect and overcoming the site constraints to deliver a scheme that is innovative, aspirational, and affordable has been a highly stimulating challenge.
Long terraces have been utilised to maximise the developable area, while novel 'amenity lanes'; landscaped semi-private extensions to the rear gardens; have been created on a scale and ambition rarely tested in Glasgow. 'Upside down' houses have been developed to maximise the site views, with living areas arranged to the first floor. Large areas of open space and a sophisticated network of pedestrian paths, completes a development that will completely regenerate this edge of Easterhouse.
architect: Curtis Hold, Aimee Trainer
client: Lochfield Park Housing Association
cost: £14.1 million
status: Completed - Sep 2022
awards:
location: abbeycraig road / allnach place, easterhouse
photography: Alexander Fraser Photography | Grant Murray Architects