Canadian Estate

Architecture | Town Planning | Landscape

Client

Lend Lease

Location

Bulford, Wiltshire

Description

260 service family accommodations

Awards

Lend Lease Award 2013 – Winner of Design Innovation

At Canadian Estate, it was important that the design provided a place for the service men and women repatriating from a tour of duty would feel familiar. High quality, locally distinctive materials such as brick and flint banding were instrumental in achieving this familiarity, as well as maximising individuality and increasing character and legibility on the estate.

The masterplan aimed to establish a holistic strategy that combined residents’ needs for open space with a diverse range of habitat types. Wherever possible, existing mature trees and shrubs were retained, helping promote biodiversity whilst adding a mature aesthetic to the development. This approach helped to capture carbon and to create a vibrant and sustainable landscape which embedded the estate within Bulford.

All 260 dwellings comply with military JSP scales, are Code for Sustainable Homes Level 4 as well as Lifetime Homes compliant.

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Casa Di Lusso

Architecture | Town Planning | Landscape

Client

Notaro Homes

Location

Bridgwater, Somerset

Description

88-bed care home

Awards

2017 Building Better Health Awards | Shortlisted for Best Dementia Development

Casa Di Lusso is a 5,515sqm (59,360 sq ft) care home which comprises; assisted living bedrooms, dementia care facility, ensuite assisted bathrooms, catering kitchen, lounges, a management office and ancillary plant rooms. The care home offers a combination of accommodation, supporting services, assistance and specialist healthcare that can be tailored to meet the individual needs of the residents.

The linear site and requirement for a large floor plate, meant that a contemporary design approach felt more appropriate as well as suiting the clients requirements. The long elevation was visually broken by using a mixture of zinc, brick and render in dramatic forms which created a dynamic and exciting facade.

Externally, sensory landscaped gardens designed specifically for individuals living with dementia created a sensitive outdoor environment.

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Cattlemarket

Architecture | Town Planning | Landscape

Client

Benson Elliot

Location

Yeovil, Somerset

Description

Feasibility study for mixed use redevelopment of Vincants Yard and Cattlemarket site

This mixed-use redevelopment of Yeovil town centre is located on the former 1.34Ha Cattle Market site and Vincent’s Yard site. Part of the redevelopment includes a large public square for flexible use creating a central focus for the town centre. A key aim for the masterplan was to explore linking the Quedam Shopping Centre and wider townscape to the suburban settlements north of the town centre, currently cut off by a busy two-lane by pass.

Our feasibility study explored a variety of potential building uses including a hotel, flexible work/office space, healthcare, cinema, cycling hub and residential. The public realm spaces considered use for market stalls and gatherings for sporting events as well as incorporating SUDs, soft native landscaping and appropriate lighting to encourage a night-time economy.

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Chelsea Embankment Gardens

Architecture | Town Planning | Landscape

Client

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

Location

Chelsea, London

Description

Landscape design for Chelsea Embankment Gardens

This scheme is for the restoration of the Chelsea Embankment Gardens and seeks to visually reunite and connect the spaces, so that they feel like an extension of one another. The existing site is tired and lacks visual interest.

BoonBrown Landscape Architects have worked closely alongside the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, the Chelsea Steering Group and Chelsea Physic Garden to come up with a drought-tolerant design that focuses on repetition of planting species and design features between the two sites, to create visual unity. Key entrance spaces will be enhanced through mounded planting beds, incorporating naturalistic planting. Swathes of bulbs and multi-stemmed ornamental trees will also serve to provide visual screening to the busy road, whilst retaining passive surveillance. Yew hedging serves to frame key entrance spaces and the setting of the many statues within the park. There are aspirations to restore the existing Victorian drinking fountain in a bid to reduce singleuse plastics.

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Chiswick Point

Architecture | Town Planning | Landscape

Client

Graham Construction

Location

Gunnersbury, London

Description

124 Apartments and 11,485 sq ft of B1 and D1 uses

Design and Build contract with Graham Construction for Bellway Homes to deliver this 124 apartment, high quality mixed use development of a brownfield site with ground floor offices, D1 nursery and estate management facility, adjacent Chiswick Park and the Gunnersbury Triangle Wildlife Trust.

The external envelope is a Techrete pre-cast concrete panel cladding system set off the rc frame with internal dry lining, requiring diligent design coordination to enable fast-track construction assembly.

The cladding expresses vertical core ‘buttresses’ with fine concrete fins on the public elevation and, by contrast, resorts to a strong horizontal rhythm on the private side, with the flow of the continuous curved balconies contrasting against the expansive glazing.

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Cooksons Court

Architecture | Town Planning | Landscape

Client

Somerset Care

Location

Yeovil, Somerset

Description

65-bed care home

Cooksons Court is a purpose built nursing home set in an attractive landscaped grounds in a quiet residential area of Yeovil.

Working closely with Somerset Care, BoonBrown have developed a design that responds to both the site and the organisation’s vision to provide the highest standard of care services to its residents.

The building has 65 ensuite bedrooms, including 2 relaxing communal lounges/ dining areas, assisted bathrooms and a hair salon for residents use.

Cooksons Court mirrors the quality and design flair of a modern care home, promoting health and wellbeing through the use of natural materials, maximum daylight and attractive landscaping.

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Chelsea Reach

Architecture | Town Planning | Landscape

Client

Bellway Homes

Location

Fulham, London

Description

Infill mixed used development

Chelsea Reach is the redevelopment of the Mecca Bingo Hall site in Fulham to provide 42 residential apartments, 2,700 sq ft street front retail and a basement car park.

The façade of this building comprises a rain screen hung coloured terracotta tiled cladding set to subtle curves and recesses to create a bold design in this otherwise traditional street scene of London stock brick and shop-fronts.

Set in an affluent area of south-west London, the apartments & penthouses are finished to a high specification and bespoke design to achieve high value sales.

The development was a complex infill to achieve maximum height & density in the enclosed site.

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Conifer Primary School

Architecture | Town Planning | Landscape

Client

Dorset County Council

Location

Weymouth, Dorset

Description

New primary school

Conifers Primary School is a new primary school whose design creates a strong architectural form whilst incorporating a flexible learning environment that is enjoyable to use. It provides fourteen class bases, including SEN and Asperger’s Syndrome teaching rooms, assembly hall, music and drama studio, library, information technology suite and administrative offices.

The two-storey building provides a well-balanced layout of accommodation and ensures plenty of hard and soft play areas remain available.

The building projects a welcoming image that is fitting for a new and progressive school. The sculptural form with overhanging wings provides the school with a clear and visible identity, whilst the use of a simple palette of materials gives a strength and elegance to the exterior. The envelope is restricted to white render, glazed units and powder coated aluminium curtain walling, with the balance between render and glazing intended to reflect stability and openness.

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Chapel Field

Architecture | Town Planning | Landscape

Client

Colony Properties

Location

South Petherton, Somerset

Description

Planning permission for residential development in the countryside

Planning permission for a major residential development in the countryside on the edge of a popular village, gained on the basis of its contribution towards the district council’s five-year housing land supply shortfall.

Designed by our architects, this residential development consists of 22 luxury detached and semi-detached homes in South Petherton.

Each home has been individually designed and has its own identity, which is achieved by the quality of the layout, buildings and spaces and the relationships between them, whilst using instantly recognisable building forms so as to respect local context.

Awards: 2014 Premier Guarantee Excellence Awards  – Winner of the Judges Imperial Awards


Garmans Fields

Architecture | Town Planning | Landscape

Client

Yarlington Homes

Location

Lyme Regis, Dorset

Description

15 affordable homes in AONB

A new residential development of 15 affordable dwellings, comprising four three-bedroom, six two-bedroom and five one-bedroom houses on a 1.5-acre site in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

BoonBrown was appointed as project architect from concept design through to planning and technical design, RIBA stages 1-4.

Awards

2018 24 Housing Award | Shortlisted – Affordable Housing Scheme of the Year

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