RSHP

Oxley Woods

  Project Directors
Ivan Harbour
Lennart Grut

  Project Lead
Andrew Partridge

Project Directors
Ivan Harbour
Lennart Grut

Project Lead
Andrew Partridge

Job Sheets
English
Français

Job Sheets
English
Français

Date
2005 - 2007

Client
English Partnerships

Location
Milton Keynes, UK

Floors
3

Environmental Certification
BREEAM
Very Good

Overview

English Partnerships and the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister launched the Design for Manufacture competition in 2005, with the aim of building high-quality homes at a construction cost of £60,000. The focus of the competition was to encourage architects and house builders to work together to achieve this.

RSHP’s response was to develop a generic house type that can be adapted to suit any location and site constraint using modern methods of construction. An emphasis is placed on the potential of adapting houses to suit their occupants’ lifestyle changes and family sizes. This mix of tenure and adaptability will create an accessible and adaptable community that can reflect and accommodate change over time.

RSHP’s approach pulls together house parts that are small and complex in nature into a highly standardised and thoroughly tested unit. The serviced spaces – including bathrooms, kitchens and heating/lighting centres – are standardised across the range of proposed house types and, along with the facades and ‘Eco-Hats’, are manufactured off site and transported to site for assembly. The remainder of the space is treated as a highly flexible shell, unencumbered by services and structural peculiarities. Through variations in cladding, the houses are able to have many variations which will allow them to adjust to the vernacular of the area by appropriating colours and textures typical of the surrounding area. The flexibility of cladding, living space, roof orientation and fenestration enable the houses to be located at any site, while at the same time being specific to the site.

In conjunction with George Wimpey Plc RSHP, was one of six winning partnerships, and was awarded the Oxley Park site, close to Milton Keynes, after a three stage competition. The site is just over three hectares in size and has 120 dwellings on it, providing a mixture of affordable housing and larger private dwellings in two and three-storey houses around a central high street.

Data

Awards  
2009Chicago Athaneum International Architecture Good Green Award
2009Chicago Athaneum International Architecture Award
2008Building for Life Gold Standard, The National Standard for Well-Designed Homes and Neighbourhoods, CABE and Home Builders Federation
2008RIBA The Manser Medal for Housing
2008RICS Sustainability Award
2008RIBA South Award
2008Housing Design Award - Large Housebuilder category
2008Innovative Housebuilder of the Year
2008Evening Standard Awards - Highly Commended for Best New Large Development

Team
Amy Coppock, Kelly Darlington, Benjamin Darras, Phillip Dennis, Mike Fairbrass, Lennart Grut, Mimi Hawley, Ed Hiscock, Stephen Light, Tim Mason, Jon Mercer, Andrew Morris, Alison Oktay, Andrew Partridge, Joanna Pencakowski, Jacopo V Pesciolini, Richard Rogers, Laura Salisbury, Paul Thompson, Angela Tobin, Simon Tonks, Jinbok Wee, Daniel Wright, Elizabeth Young

Project Directors
Ivan Harbour
Lennart Grut

Project Lead
Andrew Partridge

Project Directors
Ivan Harbour
Lennart Grut

Project Lead
Andrew Partridge

Location Map - Oxley Woods

Date
2005 - 2007

Location
Milton Keynes, UK

Site Area
3 hectares

Floors
3

Environmental Certification
BREEAM
Very Good

Competition Initiator
English Partnerships

Services Engineer
RYBKA

Landscape Architects
Gillespies

Chief Engineer
Woods Harwick

Disability Access Assessors
David Bonnett Associates

Eco-Hat Manufacturers
Nuaire

Developer
George Wimpey - South Midlands

Manufacturer
Wood Newton Ltd

Data

Awards  
2009Chicago Athaneum International Architecture Good Green Award
2009Chicago Athaneum International Architecture Award
2008Building for Life Gold Standard, The National Standard for Well-Designed Homes and Neighbourhoods, CABE and Home Builders Federation
2008RIBA The Manser Medal for Housing
2008RICS Sustainability Award
2008RIBA South Award
2008Housing Design Award - Large Housebuilder category
2008Innovative Housebuilder of the Year
2008Evening Standard Awards - Highly Commended for Best New Large Development

Team
Amy Coppock, Kelly Darlington, Benjamin Darras, Phillip Dennis, Mike Fairbrass, Lennart Grut, Mimi Hawley, Ed Hiscock, Stephen Light, Tim Mason, Jon Mercer, Andrew Morris, Alison Oktay, Andrew Partridge, Joanna Pencakowski, Jacopo V Pesciolini, Richard Rogers, Laura Salisbury, Paul Thompson, Angela Tobin, Simon Tonks, Jinbok Wee, Daniel Wright, Elizabeth Young

Date
2005 - 2007

Location
Milton Keynes, UK

Site Area
3 hectares

Floors
3


Environmental Certification
BREEAM
Very Good

Competition Initiator
English Partnerships

Services Engineer
RYBKA

Landscape Architects
Gillespies

Chief Engineer
Woods Harwick

Disability Access Assessors
David Bonnett Associates

Eco-Hat Manufacturers
Nuaire

Developer
George Wimpey - South Midlands

Manufacturer
Wood Newton Ltd

Location Map - Oxley Woods

Project Directors
Ivan Harbour
Lennart Grut

Project Lead
Andrew Partridge

Location Map - Oxley Woods

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