Homes for Life Salford
Sectional cut through the various terraced housing typologies, streets and garden
Site Masterplan
View down proposed main street towards Victorian bathhouse
View of shared garden interior
Sketch of the mews street
Sketch of the main street
Homes for Life Salford
The site for this new neighbourhood in Salford was historically an industrial area with a tight network of streets, that had since been raised to the ground leaving a large, empty site.
Our ambition was to create a sustainable place that is lasting, distinctively characterful, and contributes to the surrounding city.
2010–2011
Project Status: Competition
Awards
Salford Homes for Life 2011, Shortlisted
Central to the proposal is a permeable network of streets, and contemporary urban block types that are directly descended from the recognisable, traditional city fabric of terraced streets. The proposed scheme aims to make meaningful links with Manchester’s city centre, just a 10 minute walk from the site.
All of the houses and maisonettes have been designed to be adaptable, with the potential for future addition of at least one bedroom per dwelling or subdivision into different sized dwellings.
The new neighbourhood should be urban in character but should also provide some of the advantages of a typically suburban place, including encouraging a stable community, and safe open spaces including green space.
The project was one of just three short-listed projects selected from over eighty entries in an International RIBA design competition.