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Projet pour létendue de la ville, par Proctor and Matthews, situé à Canterbury.

£26 million

Housing Design Awards, Best New Neighbourhood, 2017 

“The formal composition of residential clusters, apartment blocks and open spaces, is driven by the site’s iconic view of Canterbury Cathedral. This is used to establish a structured view line across the site in which a series of open spaces are arranged, including a principal square. A number of permeable pedestrian/cycle routes across the site not only connect with wider existing and planned neighbourhoods, but also help to reinforce strategic routes to particular points of interest.The first phase comprises of five residential clusters arranged to resemble the ‘gridded patchwork’ structure of surrounding hops fields and fruit orchards. Building on this concept of structured productive fields, a typological narrative of shelter and organisation is established through the composition of residential clusters. Configured as a series of courts made-up of inter-connected courtyard houses, each cluster is enabled to have its own character and identity.“

https://www.proctorandmatthews.com/project/mountfield-park-canterbury