Location: Wallington, Surrey SM6 7BZ
Client: Peabody Trust
Description: 100 homes, Workspace and Community facilities
Value: £14.5M
Awards: Stirling Prize 2003 (Shortlisted Main Prize & Winner of Sustainability Award); RIBA London Awards 2003 (Winner Special Awards - Sustainability); Housing Design Awards 2003 (Winner - Best Project & Sustainability Award); EU prize for contemporary architecture 2003 (Nominee - Fundacio Mies van der Rohe Award); Evening Standard Lifestyle Award 2002 (Winner); Energy Globe Award 2002 (Winner)Eurosolar Award 2002 (Winner); The World Habitat Awards 2001 (Finalist).
Start / Completion: Autumn 1999 - Spring 2001
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A mixed use development solar urban village for The Peabody Trust built on a brownfield site in the London Borough of Sutton providing 92 dwellings in a mixture of flats, maisonettes and town houses, with over 2,500 m² of workspace, office, and community accommodation. Also on site is a nursery, community hall with changing rooms and an exhibition centre of renewable technologies. The BedZED urban system reconciles high-density three-storey city blocks with high residential and workspace amenity. Workspace is placed in the shade zones of south facing housing terraces, with skygardens created on the workspace roofs, enabling all flats to have outdoor garden areas, with good access to sunlight, at the same time as providing well day lit workspace without problematic summer overheating. The combination of super-insulation, a wind driven ventilation system incorporating heat recovery, and passive solar gain stored within each flat by thermally massive floors and walls - reduces the need for both electricity and heat to the point where a 100 kW wood fuelled combined heat and power plant (chp) can meet the energy requirements for a community of around 240 residents and 200 workers.