CHOBHAM ROAD | STRATFORD east, London, UK|2019
Four new low rise apartment blocks, built from wood, by Edward Williams Architects. The new gardens aim to fill the courtyard with colour, scent and texture to encourage good community spirit.
© Edward Williams Architects
place
The development sits within a victorian terrace of houses, along a tree lined street. Previously thought to be a bomb site, it was developed during the 1980’s with low rise housing facing into a utilitarian car park.
Design
To create a garden for residence to share and enjoy. Strategic planting of trees and perennial boarders to improved views out whilst also creating privacy. Sustainable good practice lead us to design this low maintenance garden with draught tolerate plants so no irrigation system is required. The newly arranged car park will have a porous surface to allow rainfall to naturally replenish ground water.
Brief
Bold block planting creates an expansive look of simple complementary colours, which will compliment the new wood structured buildings. Textural hedges of Calamagrostis grasses and Carpinus form a structural spin for the perennial planting to flow around. Larger Robinia trees where chosen for their loose habit and upright form to root the buildings into the place. Drifts of small Amelanchier trees will form banks of blossom and moments of autumn colour. This will be a garden of year round interest.
