Part III
A Fa m i l y A p p roa c h to H o u s i n g We l fa re
Lord Wolfson offers £250, 000 prize to design garden city Financial times 14th November 2013
Wolfson prize seeks garden city solution to UK housing squeeze Constraints on space, buyers’ tight budgets and ‘nimby’ opposition mean garden cities are not the answer The Guardian 13th November
Why should Britain build new towns when it already has great cities? Awarding prizes for the urbanisation of the countryside makes no sense while existing cities are given Cinderella status The Guardian 14th November
Two New Garden Cities for Southern England in ‘secret’ Tory Plan The Telegraph 11th Jan 2014
Government must be upfront about garden city plans, says Nick Clegg Deputy prime minister says green belt is being eaten away and calls for planned cities rather than piecemeal developments The Guardian 17th Jan 2014
Our housing is in crisis – we need both brownfield and greenfield sites The tougher the planning controls, the higher the house prices. We must ease restrictions in our cities and in the countryside The Guardian 19th Jan 2014
Shadow planning minister champions garden city principles in Letchworth visit The Independent 20th Jan 2014
Welwyn Garden City savaged on National BBC Radio Show The Times 20 Jan 2014
We WILL build two new garden cities to tackle the country’s housing crisis, says Pickles The Daily Mail 20 Jan 2014
County council pledges to fight garden city plan after Gerrards Cross Rumours Welwyn Hatfield Times 21st Jan 2014
LANDGRAB HEADLINES The headlines above chart he media reaction to the specul;ation of an unpublished garden cities ‘prospectus’ recommending the construction of two major new settlements in Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire or Warwickshire. It is suggested that officials are in a “panic” over the political implications for safe Conservative seats should the document be published. Liberal Democrats are in favour of the airing of the 50-page report.
Yeilding Garden City Left: A vision of how Yalding may look if it is to become of 2 new garden cities as proposed by the coalition government. Below: Yalding today, a small village in the london greenbelt.
Yeilding Village
“Garden cities are a way of protecting the countryside. It is possible to create them without building on the green belt, National Parks or Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. And by doing it we could deliver homes people can afford in places they want to live.”
“I think there is real potential to provide some of this new housing in garden cities if we get the two most important elements right: private investment and community ownership.”
Nick Clegg Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the Liberal Democratts Jan 2014
Location of 2 new Garden Cities Proposed by Coalition Government to provide new homes
Grant Shapps MP Housing Minister & Conservative Mp for Welwyn and Hatfield Jan 2014
Yalding, Kent
Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire
COALITION’S GARDEN CITY ‘PROSPECTUS’ Housing Minister and Conservative MP for Welwyn and Hatfield, Grant Shapps is championing the idea of the Garden City as an amswer to the UK housing crisis. Current media speculation suggests 2 new garden cities could be bult in London Greenbelt in Yalding, Kent and gerrards Cross Buckinghamshire
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After Social and Instability of the 1950 - The suburban ideal is strongly linked with notion of the ‘Nuclear family’ and a return to female domesticity: the home is a place of consumption, the female is a ‘housewife’ and husband is breadwinner.
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THE SUBURBAN ‘BEAU IDEAL’ The avertisements above from 1950s and 2011 highlight that is an inherent link between the suburban housing type and the notion of a ‘Nuclear Family’. The ‘leafy’ suburb promisses stability, health and a place build a family. A key difference between the portrayeal of suburbia today from that of the 50s is the move away from the gendered steretype associated with domestic duties.
New Domesticity
Communal Infrastructurees for Domestic Duties
Linking home with non-domestic work
Suburban Vernacular and the ‘Beau Ideal’
Sense of stability through familiarality & non-shelter infrastructure
relinking with nature reteating from city life
[Beyond] Nuclear Family Welfare Provision
Household welfare provision
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KEY THEMES OF RESEARCH
Proposed Site Locations
Welwyn Garden City
#1 Rural 30 perminent dwellings + 40 seasonal dwellings Harvest festival Site
Essenden Country Club
#2 Suburban 80 houses New ‘Garden’ Suburb
Linking Urban, Rural and Suburb
#3 Urban 8-12 City Flat Shares For Commuters who work in the city 1 or 2 days per week
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A shop front market stall/grocers for the sale of produce
St Stilas Estate (NW5) Marquis Road (NW1) sites: Council owned dissused ‘small sites’ Curently under public consultation regardng their future use, London Borough of Camden
SITE LOCATION AND PROGRAM Infill infrastru ctu res will create a ‘ hom e from hom e’ peopl e who com m ute from th e su b u rban o r ru ral s i te to wor k i n the c i ty one or 2 days per week .
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Location of Anual Harbest Festival’ Passive and active production of low labour intensive crops, such as orchards.
Esenden Country Glub Golf Course 1
Encouraging people from suburbs to greenbelt - dwellings expand to accomdate 120 extra people during harvest.
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Home to 30 perminent families with space to contract and expand to accomodate an extra 40 families seasonally
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site: 1 of 2 Golf Courses at Essenden Country Club
SITE LOCATION AND PROGRAM Sited o n a g o lf co u rse th e Ru ral si te houses a com m uni ty of 30 per m i nent fam i l i es who l i ve an d larg ely wo rk in th e g reen bel t. The typol ogy i s fl ex i bl e al l owi ng for the dwel l i ngs to ad apt to h o u se a seaso n al infl ux of c i ty dwel l ers dur i ng anual The H ar vest Festi val . Welwyn Garden City
Essenden Country Club
Suburban vernacular infastructure such as lampposts become structural system and also become a marker for public space.
Each dwelling can expand upwards by one storey to accomodate for a growing family. and allow occupants a sense of stability and ownership over their environment.
Infastructure links physically between other towers through layred shelter and water filter and transfer system
Each tower has a communal function such as childcare/ foodshare/workshop/ office space these function form active street front during day
Shared domestic infastructures, which dwellings clip into. Structures are self sufficient low rise towers harvesting gas, water heat and fertiliser.
DOMESTIC INFASTRUCTURES Dwelings ‘clip in’ to existing framework to form part of communal infastructure producing and sharing gas/water/and fertiliser for crops. Beds below allow growth of in gravel beds - the only crop to thrive in the naturally chalcky soil of Welwyn Garden City.
A roofscape of conservatories / sheds and greenhouses is imagined
Tall hedges act as a noise buffer but are also cut to frame views between dwellings.
IMAGINED FUTURE: ROOFSCAPE OF CONSERVATORIES/ GREEN HOUSES AND SHEDS It is imagined that each dwelling will be permitted to extend upwards 1 storey, allowing families to feel a sense of ownership through the customisation of the typology as well as allowing for an increase in family size.
SUBURBAN SITE: DOMESTIC INFRASTRUCTURES Initial Design Ideas for suburban Site - Small communities formed around shared services within bigger masterplan
Ground space used for production of low labour intensive crop and superfood watercress, which grows well in gravel bed on chalk soil.
Value £18, 000 Price £18,000
‘Help to Buy’ Scheme
‘Right to Buy’ Scheme
Key Family Tree
Value £30,000 Price £10,000 After Right to buy
£170,000 Price £10,000 AfterValue £85,000
Help To Buy
Remortgage against increase in value
Generational Transfere of Housing wealth
Value at death £75,000
Average age at home ownership 40
Average age at home ownership 28-29
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People under 30 relying on wealth from parents to secure their own home + 10% since 1996
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Young people the age of 2034 living with parents +25% since 1996 Office for National statistics
Work i n Prog ress >40 1990 2012
RE-FAMILISATION OF SOCIETY Family has increasingly become a means of welfare as younger generations rely on older ‘housing rich’ generations due to the changes in thr housing market
Rainwater Water Harvesting canopies collect and distribute rainwater to Watercress Crop
Biodigesters produce Gas, and fertiliser, they expand when full, causing infastructure to float upwards. resulting in undulating landscape and encouraging water flow.
Dwellings have minimun impact on the ground - watercress beds enjoy chalk soil conditions and prevent surface flooding
SUBURBAN SITE: DOMESTIC INFRASTRUCTURES Initial Design Ideas for suburban Site - Small communities formed around shared services within bigger masterplan
Infastructures link to create green web across city
Mini dwellings - a place to sleep in the city for a night or 2.
Shared Office + small meeting room
Herb Gardens for existing community cafe selling juice/soup and veg from the Rural site
Childcare centre for up to 5 children
INITIAL STRUCTURAL CONCEPT Pylon style stuctures also making use of prestressed properties using tension wires to compress horizontal decks and alowing for cantilever over existing buildings where space is limited
URBAN SITE: DWELLINGS FOR COMMUTERS WHO WORK IN THE CITY 1-2 DAYS PER WEEK Initial Design Concept diagram showing program of urban dwelling. Infill Strutures slot into existing brownfield sites, tap into gutter systems of existing water to harvest herbs for the comunity.