Proposals for the first phase of Vertical Village submitted for its first phase for planning.
Child Graddon Lewis’ have submitted designs for a vertical village situated at the western end of the new 4.7 acre St. John’s site.
Child Graddon Lewis’ mixed-use development takes high density living to a new level, incorporating places to work, eat, rest and play. The scheme designed for Allied London comprises of 6 inter-connecting elegant residential towers that sit on a park level podium, with the tallest to stand at 50-storeys high with green spaces connecting each level. The vertical village is a sustainable model for high density urban living providing accommodation, public gardens, restaurants, commercial, educational and medical amenities and even facilities for the growing of food. The buildings are designed and orientated to allow excellent sunlight levels and attractive views from within each of the 1,200 apartments.
The focus of the vertical living concept is to create an integrated diverse community with a range of communal areas designed at different scales and intimacies. Triple-height atria to the central cores provide shared communal space for residents living within a few of floor levels of each other, designed to encourage a genuine neighbourhood feel, and a sense of ownership of spaces in which residents can dwell, relax and socialise. Situated on top of the level 5 podium, residents and public alike can access the amenities and facilities that one would normally find around a village green: pubs, play spaces, sports clubs, a doctor’s surgery a small school; here the wider community can come alive, connect and enjoy the various spaces. Along the river frontage assorted retailers and restaurants are accessed at riverside level providing attractive connections to the wider communities of St. John’s, Castlefield, Spinningfields and Salford.
The scheme will harvest rainwater to supply the irrigation of landscaped grounds, communal winter gardens and cores, and the living walls to the outside of the podium levels. The wider St. John’s site benefits from a centralised district heating system which will provide the power, heating and hot water for all buildings within the development area. Additionally, the development may also include the use of photovoltaics to generate an additional power source for the community, and the neighbouring River Irwell may be utilised to cool the apartments within the towers. The towers’ central cores will be passively cooled by implementing the stack effect and warmed in winter by the rejected heat from the residential and commercial accommodation.
CGL’s design focuses on fostering an integrated community within the village and within Manchester.
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