White teamed up with Great Places Housing Group, Northerngroup, Stockleys, AECOM and Gardiner & Theobald to form a consortia to work on the project to design the Greengate area of Salford.聽 This 1.45ha brownfield site will be developed to form a new exemplar of family housing combining innovation and sustainability which responds to the anticipated lifestyle and health needs of a future community and is capable of accommodating changing housing needs over a lifetime.
Catherine Burd, RIBA Adviser said 鈥淭he judges were all extremely impressed by all three shortlisted entries. 聽In the end, the clarity of White's landscape-led approach聽emerged as a clear winner. 聽The scheme, which builds on a聽Scandinavian model of聽family apartments and flexible聽tenancies, provides all households with views and access to a range of imaginatively landscaped private and shared garden spaces,聽within a simple and robust urban footprint.鈥澛�
Keith Boxer, Director Innovation and Sustainability, White Arkitekter commented 鈥淲e are delighted to bring White鈥檚 innovative Scandinavian approach to the design of a new model for family housing in the heart of this great city. As architects we have a crucial role in developing the sustainable environment of the future; the Salford House 4 Life competition is an important step in making that vision a reality.鈥�
John Merry CBE, Leader of Salford City Council, said: "This housing聽will be different to anything we have seen in Salford before. It will be exciting to watch the scheme take聽shape over the coming months聽and years, bringing聽innovative and sustainable housing into the city聽for聽our聽residents to enjoy."
An exhibition of stage one entries to the competition are on exhibition at the CUBE Gallery from 7-21 April 2011.
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