GUILDFORD PLAZA
A new co-living community in the heart of Guildford’s Bury Street Conservation Area
FOR TIGER DEVELOPMENTS
Focused on the community who will live here as well as neighbours and passers by, our designs for a multi-home development in central Guildford have received planning permission.
The cluster of four buildings provide much needed, high-quality rental homes, aimed at a diverse age group of people working in Guildford. At its core is a new public pedestrian route which runs through the site, creating a permeable and accessible green environment that enables the community to enjoy a central courtyard space.
A SITE WITH HISTORY
Portsmouth Road dates from the mid-eighteenth century, providing a key route from London to Portsmouth. By the mid-nineteenth century there was substantial commercial and residential development on both sides of Portsmouth Road including within the Guildford Plaza site.
In the later nineteenth century the site was redeveloped to host two breweries: The Castle Brewery from 1838 and The Cannon Brewery from 1844. These were supplemented by soft drink manufacture into the twentieth century until just before World War II when the premises were taken over by the Guildford Glass and Metal Works.
MASSING & STRATEGY
ARTICULATION, FENESTRATION & COMPOSITION
Each elevation reads clearly as a series of defined blocks with each bay articulated as an individual element within the whole.
Each elevation bay is then individually composed to create a loose and playful composition through a variety of window types and sizes, with subdivision for scale and privacy.
The complete composition balances response to immediate local context with interior function and operational needs.
LOCATION
Guildford
SIZE
126,600 sqft
STATUS
Ongoing
CLIENT
Tiger Developments