Accordia Masterplan
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Apartment building
Large-scale housing masterplan, Cambridge, by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and Alison Brooks Architects
FCBS were appointed to masterplan the brownfield site, and subsequently to design 212 houses and 166 apartments at an overall density of 40 dwellings per hectare. Maccreanor Lavington and Alison Brooks Architects were appointed to design 25 per cent and 10 per cent of the housing respectively, in order to bring variety to the scheme.
Including a series of different house and apartment types, the masterplan incorporates terraces, courtyard houses and ‘set-piece’ apartment buildings within public landscaped gardens which extend to approximately three hectares.
The masterplan was designed for pedestrian and cycle demands, with landscaped pedestrian “streets”, mews streets with shared surfaces, discreet car parking and integrated cycle parking.
Data
- Begun: Sep 2002
- Completed: Oct 2004
- Sector: Residential
- Total cost: £38M
- Tender date: Nov 2002
- Procurement: JCT 98
- CO2 Emissions: 35kg/m2/year
- Address: Hadleigh, Huntingdon Road, Girton, Cambridge, CB3 0LH, United Kingdom
Tags 
Brownfield site, Cambridge, Collaboration, Housing, Large-scale, Masterplan, Public realm, Residential, RIBA Award, Stirling Prize winner
Materials
Professional Team
- Architect: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
- Project architect: Keith Bradley
- Client: Countryside Properties
- Landscape architect: Grant Associates
- Structural engineer: Richard Jackson
- Services engineer: Roberts and Partners
- Main contractor: Kajima Construction Europe Plc
