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2 Jun 2020
Redevelopment Of The Ebury Bridge Estate, Westminster, London, England, UK
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Ebury Bridge Estate Redevelopment
Westminster City Council announce that construction firm Bouygues UK has won a contract to design and build the first phase of the new Ebury Bridge Estate in Pimlico.
21 Jan 2020
New UK housing ‘dominated by roads’
Comment from Richard Hyams, Founder of award-winning architects, astudio, to this morning’s article on the BBC this morning, which reports that planners and engineers have been criticised for allowing new housing developments to be dominated by roads. Please see here.
‘The lack of foresight in construction and housing development is storing up potentially decades worth of problems. While it is evident that Government has put housing at the top of its agenda, in a bid to help solve the housing crisis, that cannot come at the expense of good design or considerations about the future of the environment.
The Government’s own travel survey suggests that 76% of people believe that people should be reducing the use of their cars, but that will only happen if urban planners and architects design new developments and infrastructure, which supports these goals. Road-dominated housing projects will clearly lead to increases in car usage. Developments with more bicycle, walking paths and links to public transport will encourage the community to be less reliant on cars. Benefiting the environment, health and wellbeing.
The detriment or benefits of either option will compound over the decades and make long –term environmental goals harder to attain. Responsibility lies with designers and developers to encourage better environmental practices through better design. If we are building homes to last decades, they need to be built with an outlook for the future, not just for immediate demand.’
13 Sep 2019
Kingston Academy Regeneration, Richmond Road, Kingston upon Thames
Design: Astudio
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Kingston Academy Building
Enhancement of old and new building elements has transformed the famous free school into a modern education facility and a vibrant community centre.
5 Feb 2019
astudio secures planning permission for project in major London borough
ASTUDIO SECURES PLANNING PERMISSION FOR REVOLUTIONARY MODULAR HOUSING PROJECT FROM MAJOR LONDON BOROUGH
Award-winning architectural practice astudio, will use its revolutionary amodular approach that reduces the cost of modular housing while providing high-quality homes.
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astudio, the award-winning architectural practice, is pleased to announce it has been granted planning permission by London Borough of Barking and Dagenham for a second off-site housing development. The project will utilise astudio’s ground-breaking building approach that reduces the cost of modular housing while providing high-quality homes.
The development, Mellish Close in Barking, consists of one, two and three-bedroom flats and is targeted to be completed in 60 weeks rather than the 24-30-month time frame of traditional construction practices providing the council with much needed homes far more quickly. The project will be delivered in partnership with regeneration company Be First and offsite modular manufacturer Rollalong. Manufacturing assembly will begin immediately and the project is expected to complete this year.
astudio’s innovative volumetric modular construction method enables the expedited assembly of lowenergy homes: fitted out and manufactured offsite using precision methods of construction that will provide robust, high-design modular housing at less expense than traditional housing.
The homes are supplied on a turnkey standardised production basis, which minimises costs through bulk purchasing materials and components speeding up the production process and reducing the potential for defects during build. Multiple fixtures, fittings and cladding options both internally and externally are available, enabling each building to have a distinctive look and feel.
Modular housing offers one possible answer to the UK’s housing crisis – across the UK local and national government now spend £2 million a day on temporary accommodation for more than 77,000 homeless households under local authority care.
Richard Hyams, Co-founder and CEO of astudio, commented: “We are pleased to have secured this second round of planning permission from the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham for the development at Mellish Close. This is another milestone for our amodular design and build system and demonstrates there is a better way to procure affordable homes far faster and at much lower cost than traditional construction techniques. That the UK faces a housing crisis is recognised all the way up to the corridors of Westminster.
As a recent cross-party Parliamentary Commission has found we need to build 3m affordable homes over the next twenty years just to keep up with Britain’s housing needs. Given the scale of the housing crisis modular construction techniques such as ours must form part of the response of policymakers to address the UK’s housing crisis. To be given the go-ahead for a project of this scale tells us planners have begun to recognise this.”
About Be First Be First is a pioneering new regeneration company accelerating growth in the borough of Barking and Dagenham. See www.befirst.london
28 Aug 2018
Revolutionary Modular Housing by astudio, London, England, UK
Astudio launches revolutionary modular housing method in partnership
With major london borough
Proprietary construction method offers expedited, end-to-end design, production and installation significantly reducing the cost of modular build
Inaugural homes developed in partnership with Be First
in the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham
London 28 August 2018: astudio, the award-winning architectural practice, launches amodular, its proprietary modular building method with Be First, the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham’ s pioneering regeneration company. The ground-breaking process reduces the cost of modular housing, provides high-quality homes and offers one potential solution to help solve the UK’s housing crisis.
The innovative volumetric modular construction method developed by astudio enables the expedited assembly of low-energy homes, fitted-out, completed and manufactured offsite using precision methods of construction to provide robust, high-design modular housing.
astudio’s homes are supplied on a turnkey standardised production basis. Costs are minimised through bulk purchasing of materials and components. The small selection of standardised modules speeds up production and reduces the potential for defects during build. Multiple fixtures, fittings and cladding options both internally and externally are available, enabling each building to have a distinctive look and feel.
Working in collaboration with regeneration company Be First and offsite modular manufacturer Rollalong, astudio’s pioneering approach is being implemented in two new developments in the borough, at Mellish Close and Sugden Way in Barking.
Consisting of eight council flats in Mellish Close and 13 in Sugden Way, the homes will be built to the highest quality standards, in complete accordance with building and health & safety build regulations, more sustainably, cost-efficiently and within an accelerated time-frame of 60 weeks from design to handover compared to the 24-30 months it would take for traditional builds, saving the council vital resources.
Be First was established in 2017 with a mission to accelerate regeneration and, in particular, to address the growing shortage of housing in the borough.
Across the UK local and national government now spend £2 million a day on temporary accommodation for the over-77,000 homeless households under local authority care.
Richard Hyams, Co-founder and CEO of astudio, commented: “We are delighted to be working in close partnership with Be First and the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham to help address the critical housing shortage in the borough, using our amodular proprietary production method. It is vital that landowners, developers, local councils and the community collaborate if we are to free up land and develop innovative solutions to address the critical shortage of housing in this country. It makes sense that one of those innovations is modular housing. We believe that in the very near future, building will become like car production, with houses becoming quality manufactured products.”
Iain Ferguson, Commercial Director for Be First, commented: “At Be First we are determined to increase the pace and quality of development in Barking and Dagenham. So, we are excited to be working with astudio on this ground-breaking scheme which we expect to reduce costs and deliver top-class housing in a fraction of the normal build time.”
About astudio:
astudio is an award-winning, design-led practice, leading its field in design for manufacture. It is committed to delivering high-quality innovative architecture in a wide range of sectors – characterised by strong conceptual thinking, enduring and sustainable design and collaborative working. It is an RIBA award winner and only five years since its foundation, it won Building Magazine’s coveted Architectural Practice of the Year in 2012.
22 Jun 2018
astudio model on the UK housing crisis selected by the Royal Academy of Arts for its prestigious Summer Exhibition, London, England, UK
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astudio model on UK housing crisis
British Architecture firm astudio has been invited to exhibit its model on the UK housing crisis by the Royal Academy of Arts for at its prestigious Summer Exhibition. astudio views modern modular housing as potentially a key part of the solution to the lack of affordable housing in the UK.
May 2012
Wigan Life Centre wins the Regeneration category at the RICS Northwest Awards 2012
Apr 2012
Astudio wins Architectural Practice of the Year at Building Awards 2012
Astudio – Key Projects
Major Developments by Astudio, alphabetical:
Kent Library & History Centre, Maidstone, Kent, southeast England
2008-
£10m
’Media and Cultural City’, Tripoli, Libya
2007-
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Media and Cultural City Tripoli design
MIPIM/Architectural Review “Big Urban Project” Award 2008. Astudio is delighted to announce that it has won the Future Projects Award at Mipim this year in the Big Urban Projects category. The project is a large mixed use Culture and Media City in the heart of Tripoli.
More projects by Astudio online soon
Location: Elizabeth House, Tower Building, 10th Floor, 11 York Road, London SE1 7NX, UK
Astudio Architects Practice Information
Astudio office located in London, England, UK.
The architecture practice was founded by Richard Hyams in 2007 after 15 experience with over 12 years at Foster and Partners. Richard Hyams has completed high-profile buildings such as City Hall London and Duxford Aircraft Museum, Cambridge.
Astudio’s passion is delivering high quality design blending the latest technologies with more traditional techniques such as sketches and model making creating a unique method to both design and present their work.
Richard was joined by Aart Koning, Karsten Huneck and Max Rengifo. All experienced in delivering high quality large scale projects.
Architecture office information from Astudio 210208
Website: www.astudioarchitecture.com
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