Housing Project in London

Abstract

Always on the lookout for new, experimental housing solutions, the Peabody Trust Housing Association has been organising competitions regularly for a number of years. The housing project in Silvertown, a development area in East London, called for low-budget housing units each with 65 m² floor space for a four-person household. Peabody Trust specified the price per square metre and also the target group-young families with two children who were looking for a low-cost first home. Based on these clear but restrictive conditions, which left little leeway, the architects responded by reorganising the typical apartment layout and by using unconventional building materials.