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Case Studies
Fairfield Leslie Court

Fairfield Leslie Court (1997)
New build addition to Fairfield with sun scoop form, breathing walls and natural finishes.

Edinvar Housing Association

Edinvar Housing Association ('01). Feasibility Study for the refurb-ishment of a traditional tenement as a pilot project in sustainability.
Aviemore North

Aviemore North ('02)
Initial designs, specification and performance targets for healthy housing as part of the Master planning exercise for Aviemore.

Tollhouse gardens

Toll House Gardens ('01 - )
Latest Fairfield new build phase, now on site, featuring low allergy trigger specification in tandem with a DTI / RIBA research award.

Orkney Housing Association

Orkney Housing Association ('01 - 02)
Housing developed within the master planning exercise based on the sun scoop form with high environmental specification.

Prestehaia

Prestehaia ('00 - )
Initial designs incorporating the very latest ecological thinking for a 17 unit development near Stavanger, Norway.

Angus Court

Angus Court (1999)
Most recent refurbishment phase at Fairfield avoiding all chemical treatment of timbers, pvc free etc.
 

 
 

 
 

 

General

Housing projects develop in a number of ways. Some, like Edinvar are stand-alone projects. Others have developed from community facilitation exercises such as Gaia's long standing relationship with Fairfield Housing Association whilst others develop from master planning projects such as the recent projects at Aviemore and Orkney.

At Paisley, it worked the other way around, with what started as a simple Housing Condition Survey becoming a major piece of work on the integration of service provision to housing areas and the development of the Sustainability Development Model, now progressing under the SNAP project umbrella.

Housing provides the practice with the opportunity to apply its two main principles of community architecture and ecological design, and allows the more advanced ecological design ideas developed in smaller projects to be tested in larger schemes where a different set of legislative, contractual, financial and social constraints are at work.

 
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