At Horns Cross the contemporary design of PCKO's £60K House (build cost) has created an aspirational development which is proving very popular with homebuyers, even in the present market conditions.
Client: Countryside Consortium (including Countryside in Partnership and Hyde Housing Group)
Competition Winner!
The Stone Rise development at Horns Cross resulted from winning the two stage Design for Manufacture Competition organised by the ODPM and English Partnerships (EP), now Homes & Communities Agency (HCA), to build a house for £60K.
The competition was open to a number of consortia who provided costed design proposals for £60K build solutions. The winning consortia were then invited to provide bids for sites allocated by EP and SEEDA. Countryside Properties was successful in winning the Stone Rise site with the innovative design by PCKO Architects.
Each house boasts a 'wow factor' of gallery zones and large roof glazing to the middle of the house. The gallery lets in light and life and provides that extra quality flexible space we need in contemporary living.
The 100% sale price for the shared ownership house is from £165,000, which is below Dartford's market average of £178,200 for a terrace house.
The development has been procured and delivered in accordance with the criteria set out under the terms of the Design for Manufacture competition now administered by the DCLG and HCA (Homes & Communities Agency). The delivery of the scheme has incorporated a stringent monitoring and audit process for the purposes of assessing actual delivery against the Design for Manufacture competition brief. This assessed the scheme in respect of achieving the cost efficiency and design standards required such as EcoHomes ‘Very Good’, Lifetime Homes standards and achievement of a Building for Life award.
The procurement route was innovative with the Contractor and prefabricators involved in the design process from inception; therefore a true partnership was formed between the designers, suppliers and constructors in developing the £60K House from the first sketch to delivery of the finished product.
Design
Three house types were designed derived from the same generic core concept (living wall, flexible space, gallery zone), which can deliver differing internal and external characteristics. The concept can generate a variety of street frontages within an overall unifying rational discipline and with a flexibility that responds to orientation and site specific contexts from suburban to urban. The intention of our competition entry was to demonstrate that it is possible to deliver high quality housing at radically reduced cost involving off site manufacturing. While the Horns Cross site was too small to fully utilize volumetric prefabrication, houses and flats were constructed using a highly rationalised timber frame system, fabricated on site using an innovative micro-factory system of production.
The scheme occupies a brown field site reclaimed from high levels of contamination and ground abnormalities. High levels of gas contamination and requirements for future proofing gas protection from a land fill site resulted in a majority of the site area suited only to communal use, with a restricted area permitted for homes with private gardens.
The Consortium managed to demonstrate that the design can provide high quality accommodation with the potential of becoming a model for further developments. The scheme delivered high quality houses and flats, more spacious than the requirements of the competition, adding value for residents, outstanding value for money, and showing a positive way forward. In addition, the simple contemporary design has created an aspirational development which is proving very popular with homebuyers, even in the present market conditions.
Key consultants: Countryside in Partnership (Main Contractor), Brand Leonard (Structural Engineer), Waterstone Design (Service Engineer)
For further information contact Andrew or Paul
For hi-res images contact Chris
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