Sustainable housing guidelines

Criteriasforagoodneighbourhood
Dhiraj Salhotra
dhirajsalhotra@gmail.com
MASS HOUSING PROJECT
GUIDELINES
FOR
SUSTAINABLE AND APPROPRIATE
HOUSING DESIGN

Examples of strategies for storing
recycling and waste in higher
density housing schemes:
Storage integrated with entrances and front
gardens to houses, as in this example of a
terraced townhouse.
Housing developments should include adequate provision for recycling
facilities, both inside the home and around the site. This means that homes
need to be provided with areas where materials can be sorted and stored
prior to being collected for recycling, and bin stores will often need to contain
room for 2, 3 or more bins per dwelling, unless communal recycling is
provided. Additionally, areas within the public realm will need to be set aside
for extensive recycling facilities and such facilities will need to be provided in
locations that are easily accessible by all residents, while not causing a
nuisance.
Appropriate recycling facilities

Appropriate recycling facilities
If access is provided with a laneway
to the rear, this should
be private for residents’ access only.
This may allow service
vehicle access (requiring a through-
route or turnabout) or
residents may bring their own bins to
the kerbside.
Bins may be
stored
communally
in free-
standing
structures
in order to
avoid
clutter at
dwellings.

Creating a sense of belonging by
identifiable strong built form

Good quality architecture and landscaping have been an important element .
The visible change from very poor quality, low-density towers to higher
quality, higher density houses has helped to change perceptions of the district
as a residential neighbourhood.

An axial route at a residential development exploits a castle to give a unique,
local identity to the site.

A no-through road allowing a continuous pedestrian and cycling route but
restricting vehicle movement. It is important that the pedestrian/cycle only
route should still be treated as a street with good overlooking and active
frontages.

Shops and offices with doors to apartments above provide active
frontage and a human scale to streets.

Buildings to back of pavement, parking and planting, generate
a people orientated street. Adamstown, Co Dublin

Activity on a shared surface street .Removing cars and their associated
design requirements(kerbs, barriers, markings) signals clearly that this is a
street designed for people and allows for relaxed activity by residents

Rather than relying on speed bumps, this design drawing for a
development uses layout to control traffic speeds with an indirect route,
parking layouts and making clear thresholds into a ‘home zone’ street.

The schematic layout above
and below shows buildings
used to create a clear, simple
range of spaces. Frontages
address public spaces and
streets while perimeter
blocks enclose and control
shared private spaces for
residents only.

In this sketch design, semi-private space shared by the dwellings
is clearly separated from the public streets, either completely
enclosed by terraces or separated by railings.

This scheme regeneration clearly delineates defensible front gardens
facing onto well overlooked public roads, with private gardens to the
rear.

This development encloses a
public square while providing
walled, private gardens to the
rear.

Parking is treated as part of the
landscaping in order to build
the feel of a residential courtyard
rather than a communal car park.
The detail treatment (e.g. low kerbs
and cobble paving) helps build the
sense that this space has been
designed for the needs of residents
rather than cars
Clear consideration and definition of
streets and parking areas.

Widefronted,shallow units provide
advantages in extendability and
natural daylighting. Narrow-fronted
,deep units can be more efficient in
block layout.

Criteriasforagoodneighbourhood Two storey terraced houses
in this example are designed
so that occupiers can add a
third storey as the need
might arise in the future.
The consideration of this
potential in advance creates
a streetscape which, while
varied, still reads as a
coherent whole

Criteriasforagoodneighbourhood A simple layout which
allows conversion of rooms
or different floors as needs
change.

The garden can become an extension
of the living space, both in use and
visually, if barriers are minimized
between them.
Different types of private
outdoor space for an
apartment scheme including
balconies of a
useable size

An apartment block utilising an atrium space
can allow a greater proportion of dual aspect
dwellings, if carefully designed.
The requirements of the urban block and the
hierarchy of streets are considered, while
maximizing the dual aspect units in this proposal
for housing.
The use of wide fronted units can allow
for a greater degree of light and dual
aspect to more rooms and activities,

Winter gardens, used here on the street elevation
of upper level apartments, can provide a buffer to
outside noise.
Example of angled windows
used to avoid views into
adjacent apartments,

External storage to ground floor duplex
apartments.
Recycling storage integrated
into the front garden of a
terraced house.

A higher density development with basement
parking within the footprint of the buildings.
A lower-density development providing surface
parking in a combination of on-street spaces and
spaces within well over-looked courtyards
Parking overlooked on street in front of
apartments

Car parking concealed within the landscape and activities of a multi-use space.

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