Housing, Development and Design – why are these crucial to wellbeing in London’s communities??

Angela Brady President Royal Institute of ArchitectsTwitter @AngelaBradyRIBAwww.architecture.com

Woodberry Down, London by Berkeley Group and London Borough of Hackney

“One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kind of walls, chairs, buildings and streets we’re surrounded by”

Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness

RIBA’s housing research

Building the Homes and Communities Britain Needs

Inquiry by The Future Homes Commission

The Way We Live Now

Social research and films by RIBA and Ipsos MORI

The Case for Space

Data on the size of new English homes by RIBA

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hereLiving space requirements vary by life-stage

Households with children

• Safe, unsupervised play areas

• Homework area

• Able to supervise children from the kitchen

• Able to use the kitchen for family meals

• Separate work space for parents – closed off from children

• Some private space for retreat

Older residents

• Adaptations to reflect changing health requirements

Households without children

• Space to work at home

• Private areas for older adult children to stay or entertain friends

Universal needs

• Flexible entertaining and private space

• Space to entertain friends and socialise

The Way We Live Now

Why is flexibility important?

What is the most important thing your home needs?

“Character! It has to be somewhere I look forward to returning home to!... New build housing is all too generic and not relative to its location.”Future Homes Commission: Building the Homes and Communities Britain Needs

The way we live now

Is quality affordable?From homes of the past to homes of the future…

Derwenthorpe, York, Joseph Rowntree Housing Foundation

www.behomewise.co.uk

twitter.com/behomewise

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The Way We Live Now

The Way We Live Now

St Catherine’s Community Foyer: Dublin City Council Cara HA Ireland

St Catherine’s Community Foyer: Dublin City Council Cara HA Ireland

Laycock St Islington 75 homes : 25% HA + Doctors surgeryThe Murphy Group/Brady Mallalieu Archs

Client: “Together UK working for Wellbeing”BMA/Croydon

Client: “Together UK working for Wellbeing”BMA/Croydon

Phoenix Heights Mastmaker Rd Ballymore Properties

Phoenix Heights Plan

Phoenix Heights Plan

Danish Eco Co housing

Peabody/BMA: Underwood Road 33 homes

Peabody: Private and shared back gardens

Peabody: balconies with a view

Politics shapes architecture …. So what kind of a future are we making now?We need to work together and lobby Government……………for a better built environment to create the right kind of housing and communities for our future generations#Homewise www.wothoutspaceandlight www.architecture.com Twitter @RIBA @AngelaBradyRIBA