Wickside - Overall Winner of NlAwards17 by BUJ Architects

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‘It’s made of history’ Dominique Alba Director, Atelier Parisien d’Urbanisme

New London Architecture Awards 2017

‘OVERALL WINNER’ ‘MIXED-USE WINNER’

‘MASTERPLANS & AREA STRATEGIES WINNER’

‘a strong focus on good public space’ David J Burney Professor of Planning and Placemaking, Pratt Institute School of Architecture, NYC.

‘It’s a proper piece of the city’ Riccardo Marini Founder, Gehl / Marini Urbanismo

WICKSIDE

OVERVIEW

Category: Mixed-use /

Masterplans & Area Strategies

Project Name: Wickside Address (Borough + Postcode): Hepscott Road, E9 5HH. London Borough of Tower Hamlets Project Value: TBC Project size: 2.88 ha Project status: In Planning Completion date: 2021 HACKNEY

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Project description: Wickside seeks to create a high quality mixed use quarter with defined clusters of creative and public uses. 7,000m2 of new creative industry employment, restaurants, cafes, a craft brewery and small casting foundry are supported by over 470 new dwellings. The retention of existing heritage assets will ensure the site’s industrial history is reflected strongly in the scheme and that the character of the

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Project team: newly established local conservation area is enhanced. The creation of a new canal side linear park and significant areas of other new public realm, including new streets, puts placemaking at the heart of the new quarter.

Client/Development Team: McGrath Bros. ltd, C.J O’Shea & Galliard Homes Architect: BUJ Architects with Ash Sakula EIA: AECOM Planning Consultant: Austin Mackie Associates Project Manager: T.C. Developments Inclusive Design: David Bonnett Associates Visualisations: Forbes Massie Flood Risk Assessment: Waterman Group Heritage Consultants: Stephen Levrant Heritage Architecture Creative Industries: Sven Mündner

‘Wickside’ provides an ideal framework for the promotion of the Mayor’s vision for London, as set out in the London Plan. Wickside will provide one of the broadest ranges of fully inclusive work, play and living opportunities in London. A sustainable urban location with high level Place making at its heart, Wickside promotes choice for a revigorated and enhanced community of individuals, enterprises and visitors

alike including the Creative Industries. The proposal transforms an industrial waste site into one of London’s most diverse communities, promoting and enhancing the wider regeneration of the area through the provision of new roads, pedestrian linkages and permeability while greatly reducing air pollution resulting from its current use as a waste transfer site. Wickside takes full benefit of the site’s unique position, sitting between two of London’s largest urban parks and

bordered by the Hertford Union Canal. Heritage assets and local character are key to regeneration objectives forming the catalyst for a precisely considered range of accommodation tailored to promote the ‘highest quality of life’ and environment for Londoners. A linear park along the Hertford Union canal encourages movement between parks and provides enhanced amenity and facilities for both the local and itinerant canal communities.

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OVERVIEW

Mayor’s Prize:

London Borough of Tower Hamlets

Wickside, Hackney Wick Masterplan

2.88 ha

Unbuilt

We felt strongly that Wickside should not be developed in a single homogeneous style, rather that it should be an integral part of the city, drawing inspiration from the kind of urbanism which can be found in many existing parts of Hackney Wick and Fish Island. An aspiration is that, encountering Wickside, visitors would not think of themselves as being in a single place but in a series of places, and that moving through the development they would experience changes in urban mood and character just as you do in other parts of London with a complex history of inhabitation. So we were prioritising difference over similarity, aiming for the syncopation and contrasts of size and appearance that can be experienced in an authentic London urbanism.

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Drawn Record

A tour of Fish Island North There are two conservation areas defined within the proximity of the site.

The Hackney Wick Conservation Area sits just north of the train line, and the Fish Island and White Post Lane (FI&WPL) conservation area covers a large area south of the train line down to, and including, the

11 Hertford Union Canal. The Eastern 13 part of the proposal site12sits within 10 this conservation area. The site profits 17 from sitting in close proximity to 14 Victoria Park and Queen Elizabeth Park. 15

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Several buildings in the surrounding Fish Island North area are identified as being ‘heritage assets’ including the Mcgrath Offices within the proposal site.

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 McGrath Building 9 2 Site Building B 3 Site Building C 10 4 Site Building D 11 5 Schwartz Gallery 6 Schwartz Gallery 12 7 Queen’s Yard 13 8 King’s Yard 9 White Post Lane 14 10 White Post Lane 11 HW Building 15 12 White Post Lane 16 13 Lord Napier 17 14 Mr Bagels Building

McGrath Building Site Building B Site Building C Site Building D Schwartz Gallery Schwartz Gallery Queen’s Yard King’s Yard G1 White Post Lane G2 G3 Post Lane White G4 HW Building White Post Lane Lord Napier Mr Bagels Building Rothbury Road Trego Road Rothbury Road

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15 Rothbury Road 16 Trego Road 17 Rothbury Road

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Existing Elevation Study

FI & WPL Conservation Area

K E Y P L A N

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PHAROS YARD

GOLDEN YARD RESIDE WORK CREATE

CONSERVE A CREATIVE AGORA A PHYSICAL IDEAGORA WORK CREATE EXHIBIT DISPLAY CONNECT

TREGO YARD RESIDE REST

NURTURE RESIDE

Brewery

Residential

Residential + Commercial LINEAR PARK & NEW BRIDGE

KELDAY QUARTER & MARKET

WANSBECK SQUARE RESIDE WORK CREATE NURTURE CULTIVATE

RELAX SELL PROVIDE

Multi-use

Spread of Activity Beyond the geographical spread three clusters emphasising different activity hubs have been created: business

KELDAY MARKET CONSERVE DISPLAY SELL CREATE RESIDE ENGAGE FOCUS SUPPORT

KELDAY QUARTER RESIDE WORD CREATE

LINEAR PARK LEISURE PLAY MEET/INTERACT RELAX SUSTAIN BIND UNITE LINK LINEAR PARK LINK LEISURE EDUCATE EXTEND

incubation and food production on the western end, art and design related production and public engagement on the eastern end and food related activity in the centre of the site.

Canalside Cafe

Restaurant + Residential

Restaurant

Art Gallery

House

Artist Studios

Foundry

Animation of the public realm will be greatly enhaced through a considered spread of commercial activity across the entire site. This is relevant to all land use classes, specific business activity and tenant size and remit (commercial, not-for-profit and hybrid).

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At Wickside design solutions were developed to integrate residential and commercial activity seemlessly and to create a diverse range of typologies for commercial units.

Artist Studios

House

Residential

Art Gallery

Residential + Commercial

Outline Residential + Commercial + Footbridge

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Pharos Yard, Wickside 0.46 ha

Unbuilt

Working yard + bridge approach

The Working Yard has been developed as a tribute to a historic Hackney Wick typology through clustering similar uses and activities around one central space. It acts as a shared resource as well as a practical shelter by keeping residential away from noise impact.

Foundry

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Residential

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Foundry

Restaurant + Residential

Canalside cafe

Kelday Quarter, Wickside 0.48 ha

Unbuilt

Food quarter + market

The food quarter is located at the heart of Wickside, being equidistant to most of the residential units on site. The food quarter was conceived and developed as a social platform where both visiting public and residents as well as business and residential activity congregate.

Restaurant

Residential + Commercial

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Residential

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Residential

Residential + Commercial

Residential

Residential + Commercial

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Wansbeck Sq, Wickside

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0.84 ha

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Residential + Commercial

A predominantly residential zone with a communal landscaped courtyard, the west side of Wansbeck Square forms an environmental barrier from the noise and pollution of the A12. The new Wansbeck Road frontage activates and enhances the public realm.

Residential + Commercial

Unbuilt

Residential + Commercial

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Brewery

Residential + Commercial

Trego, Wickside

0.27 ha

Residential

Unbuilt

Trego Square is surrounded by ordinary London streets, two existing ones and two new. It is primarily residential, with some ground floor commercial uses. An east west pedestrian route runs through the block, connecting two residential yards by way of the Gold site which lies outside the boundary of this application. The proposals for this site have been created in collaboration, in such a way that our designs work without the implementation of the proposals outside of our boundary, but are complemented and enhanced if and when they do go ahead.

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Linear Park, Wickside 0.39 ha

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Landscaping

In collaboration with the Canals and Rivers Trust, we have designed the park to merge completely with the existing towpath.

Bearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Head Building

Unbuilt

Chalk Square

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The New Bridge

Linear Park Existing and new single storey buildings flanking the canal become pavilions in the park, housing public/active functions such as gallery, restaurant and café.

A public promenade The linear park alongside the canal is in part a response to a number of key planning requirements: • To provide a new local park;

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• To provide new and improved pedestrian and cycle routes; • For the new development to respond positively to the waterside setting, enhancing thecharacter of the canal; • To enhance strategic views west to the centre of London.

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Fish Island South The New Bridge The proposal main bridge approach is animated by active street level uses on its east side and by careful landscaping of a new square on its

west side. We are also proposing community uses at towpath level whose design is carefully integrated with the bridge approach ramps.

The Design We worked closely with the LLDC to integrate their vision for a new canal crossing into the design development of this part of Wickside. The new bridge was developed ensuring that users can access the bridge not only from the north, when coming from Hackney Wick Station, but also directly from the towpath. A key urban design aspiration has been to integrate the bridge infrastructure into the urbanism of Wickside, so that ramps, steps and buildings work together rather than separately.

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Connections There is a continuous north-south route connecting Hackney Wick Station and the Fish Island North area with Fish Island South.

Key theme 9 A mix of adjacent uses which mirrors the complexity of a real city district

mirrors the complexity of a real city district

er round floor

Buffer building: residential to upper floors and to sheltered yard, commercial uses on sensitive lower floors.

Residential over commercial ground floor

Wholly commercial

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town houses

Studio

Key theme 12 Wholly commercial

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town houses

Studio

Yards with the scale and commonality of existing Hackney Wick exemplars

Not too wide, and spatially intricate. Intensively used some of the time, quiet at other times. Varied heights and uses of buildings around them. Lots of entrances all round, with activity spilling out. Hard, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;industrialâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; surfaces. Semi private, semi public - safe because overlooked.

Industrial Courtyards The Creative Quarter

The Creative Cluster groups around art and public engagement activities to create synergies between the different tenants. The core of the creative quarter includes shared making and workshop facilities to enrich traditional studio space with additional tool, space and skills resources to self-employed artists and creatives.

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Pharos Works Creative Estate Food Production 20% Hospitality 15% Hotdesking 30% Creative Quarter 30% Yoga/Community 5%

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Food Quarter

The food quarter is located at the heart of Wickside where the NorthSouth route from the station to Fish Island South and the East-West route along the canal meet. The food quarter is also equidistant to most residential units on site. It is also located at a prominent section

of the proposed linear park and contains existing buildings that will be adapted for the specific use and which define the character of the adjacent spaces. With this in mind, the food quarter was conceived and developed as a social platform where both visiting public and residents as well as business and residential activity congregates and decreases anonymity.

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The Wickside community

The Market area connects all food units and acts as a further gelling agent and informal exchange space. It also instills a rhythmic life in the public realm on a weekly basis.

12 Materials Key 1. 2. 3. 4.

5. 6. 7. 8.

Brick, Ibstock Birtley Olde English Buff, 65mm. Aluminum standing seam cladding, gold anodized finish. Cladding, Encaustic Tiles, black and white. Ballustrading, Galvanised steel railings with a hardwood top, X-tend Mesh (or similar approved), stainless steel, extra small spacing. Windows, fixed light, aluminum framing, pale gold anodized. Window, sliding opening light, aluminum framing, pale gold anodized. Opening window, structural glass faced, aluminium, projecting. Decking, hardwood, natural finish

communal roof garden

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7 5 2 5 insulation

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bay study 1

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South Elevation

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FFL +30.640 Overrun

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Partial East Elevation

FFL +30.640 Overrun

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FFL +27.175 Parapet Flat

Detail A

FFL +26.500 Roof Floor

FFL +26.475 Roof Floor

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FFL +22.900 Fifth Floor

Key Plan

Flat

FFL +23.000 Fifth Floor

hung door to balcony, Steel Galvanised. 7. Galvanised steel balustrading with flat section uprights and handrail,N colour to match window frames. 8. Reconstituted stone capping. 9. Reconstituted stone cill, colour to match brickwork. 10. Precast reconstituted stone lintel. 11. Square hollow section aluminium ribs, 40mm x 40mm spaced @ 30mm centres in Anodised gold finish. 12. Proprietary u/v protection K1 system sealed natural finish Douglas Fir timber door.

FFL +27.600 Parapet

Key Plan

Flat

Detail A

Flat

FFL +23.000 Fifth Floor

Flat

FFL +19.900 Fourth Floor

FFL +22.900 Fifth Floor

Materials

Flat 7

Flat

FFL +19.900 Fourth Floor

Flat

501

Legend

FFL +26.475 Roof Floor

1. Brick, Petersen Tegl (65mm), D51, with flush pointing. 2. Brick, Wienerberger, Domus Case Lena (65mm), with flush pointing. 3. Powder coated aluminium windows with tilt and turn openable lights, Syntha Pulvin Bronze. 4. Powder coated aluminium windows with tilt and turn openable lights, Steel Galvanised. 5. Powder coated aluminium windows with side hung door to balcony, Syntha Pulvin Bronze. 6. Powder coated aluminium windows with side hung door to balcony, Steel Galvanised. 7. Galvanised steel balustrading with flat section uprightsD51, and handrail, Brick, Petersen Tegl (65mm), with flushcolour to match window frames. pointing. 8. Domus Reconstituted stone(65mm), capping. Brick, Wienerberger, Case Lena with flush pointing.9. Reconstituted stone cill, colour to match brickwork. Powder coated aluminium windows with tilt 10. Precast reconstituted stone lintel. and turn openable lights, Syntha Pulvin Bronze. 11. Square hollow with section Powder coated aluminium windows tilt aluminium ribs, 40mm x 40mm spaced @ 30mm centres in and turn openable lights, Steel Galvanised. Anodised goldwith finish. Powder coated aluminium windows side 12. Proprietary u/v protection hung door to balcony, Syntha Pulvin Bronze. system sealed natural finishwindows Douglaswith Fir timber Powder coated aluminium side door.

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FFL +27.600 Parapet

FFL +27.175 Parapet

Section B-B

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Partial South Elevation

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DRAFT

W14 BEAR'S HEAD Legend SOUTHERN & EASTERN BAY STUDIES

Flat

FFL +16.900 Third Floor

Brick, Petersen Tegl, D51

FFL +16.900 Third Floor

FFL +19.900 Fourth Floor

Materials

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Brick, Wienerberger, Domus Case Lena

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FFL +16.900 Third Floor

Flat

FFL +13.900 Second Floor

FFL +16.900 Third Floor

Brick, Petersen Tegl, D51

Balustrading, Steel Galvanised

Flat 7

Flat

FFL +13.900 Second Floor

Flat

FFL +10.900 First Floor

Brick, Wienerberger, Domus Case Lena

FFL +10.900 First Floor

FFL +13.900 Second Floor

Balustrading, Syntha Pulvin Bronze

Balustrading, Steel Galvanised

Flat 12

Flat

FFL +10.900 First Floor

Restaurant

FFL +6.750 Ground Floor

FFL +6.625 Ground Floor

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All dimensions are in millimeters. Dimensions are not to be scaled directly from this drawing. All dimensions are to be checked on site measured survey and subject to design development. Structural and services information shown is indicative only. Refer to Consultants drawings for details and setting out.

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22-24 Victoria Parade London

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Material Approach

Not one place, but many The ten areas each have their own feeling and design priorities, with each building also having its own

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charachter. Simultaneously though it is important that a set of principles are followed at masterplan level, with regard to details and materials, to ensure that the scheme does not become overly disparate. A lesson

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learnt from the traditional Hackney Wick yards was to use a lighter Casa Lena brick within the yards to unite the space, bring in extra light and to make the spaces feel larger.

The existing pump house, a former barrier between the lock and space behind, has been cut back through the demolition of the westernmost bays. The existing graffitti wall facing the canal is preserved, and the building houses a juice bar with an enclosed roofless courtyard centred around a tree of heaven.

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In the foreground is a lawn forming the central area of the Canalside park. Further east in the Kelday Quarter a mix of new and existing buildings housing retail and restaurants front Market Walk, the site of weekly markets, and a main pedestrian route through Wickside at all times.

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The two houses to the south of Pharos Square use contrasts in size and scale to help produce a diverse and authentic townscape. The existing building behind, with a defining chimney, is repurposed for a mix of commercial and residential uses, including a new residential penthouse.

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The larger scale buildings on Wansbeck Road respond to their context, with the three buildings in the centre displaying rugged, warehouse qualities with commercial uses below four residential floors. The commercial uses provide active frontages to the widened, planted pavement.

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Davey Square is a new public square at the intersection of the towpath and the new north south pedestrian and cycle route linking Hackney Wick Station with Roach Road by means of a new canal bridge. Davey Square mirrors Neptune Wharfâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lofthouse Square, from which this view is taken.

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Visual 6

Chalk Square is a sunken play area with a smooth concrete surface for pavement art. It is surrounded by steps that can become seats when the square is used for impromptu performances and for screenings onto the end wall of the art gallery.

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This stretch of the Boardwalk is part of the canalside park and is flanked by the south range of Wansbeck Yard with apartments looking south to the canal. Ground floor units have their own front doors and are accessed directly from the Boardwalk.

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This view shows the south west corner of Wickside. The triangular Bearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Head building, residential above ground floor commercial use, forms a marker for Wickside for motorists on the A12. Behind the Bearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Head sits the stretch of canalside park containing lawn loungers and orchards.

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