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Category Archives: Architecture/Design
Forest Village #5: Sustainable Development?
As a model for the development of a new settlement, Center Parcs offers a really powerful proposition. Most green-field development replaces green-space with houses. In a Center Parcs they depend on each other. The forest is regarded as an asset … Continue reading
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Tagged Bio-Diversity, Center Parcs, development, Forest Village, land-use, planning, sustainability
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Forest Village #4: The Reality
So we had imagined (previous post) a medium-density self-sustaining new settlement, planned for pedestrians and bicycles, in which residents could live surrounded by the trees, plants and wildlife of their own forest, which the process of development had not only … Continue reading
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Tagged Center Parcs, development, Forest Village, land-use
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Forest Village #3: The Concept
When the Forest Village concept was set out on paper, the accepted ideal minimum size for a new settlement or urban extension was around 2,000-3,000 homes – large enough to sustain a useful hub of local services, including a primary … Continue reading
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Tagged density, development, Eco-Towns, Forest Village, land-use, sustainability, walkability, walkable
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Forest Village #2: Houses and Trees
I will explain the real origin of Forest Village later, but I was prompted to write it down after reading another think-piece about houses and trees, by Mischa Balen, then of the Adam Smith Institute. The article ran in Planning … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Smith Institute, development, Forest Village, land-use, Mischa Balen, sustainability
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Odds and Ends…
A nice exchange just now with Howard, planning a Part 2 dissertation on Rural Architecture – see Comment/Contact. This follows Rory Olcayto’s report in the AJ (previous post) about Rem Koolhaas taking an interest in matters rural, and I am … Continue reading
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Tagged design/architecture, Dualchas, Forest Village, Gummer Law, local distinctiveness, NUCA, PPS7, Rural Office for Architecture
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Thatch-Fest #4
The Fraser Kirkland Moor house at Ockington (previous post) also put me in mind of the pool house by Kathryn Findlay I wrote about in my ‘Thatch-Fest’ series back in February 2011. Looking back at that I ended up once … Continue reading
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Tagged design/architecture, Kathryn Findlay, Lucas Hickman Smith, materials, Moering Architekten, Stephen Letch, thatch
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A Voysey/Stirling Mash-Up
In fact another project by Kirkland Fraser Moor (the Headlands House) was on a concept-board for a new house in Norwich I did over the summer. The project was on the outer edge of Norwich’s ‘Golden Triangle’, where amongst some … Continue reading
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Tagged design/architecture, Kirkland Fraser Moor, materials, pan-tiles, plain-tiles, roofs, Stirling, Voysey
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Nice ‘Big Roof’
It’s been a while since my last post – nothing since May to be precise. A ‘white-paper’ inspired by the Government’s self-build initiative soaked up all available writing-time for a couple of months, and then I was holding off in … Continue reading
Hand-Made in Norfolk
There was a distinctly ‘hand-made’ feel to Pecha Kucha Norwich Vol.3 at Cinema City on Sunday evening.
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Tagged Bernard Chauly, Jo Stafford, pecha kucha, Rachel Rayns, Steve Appleton
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