Broadwater City Farm
Client: London Borough of Haringey & Back2Earth
Cave was appointed by Haringey Council in January 2008 to complete designs for a new sustainable City farm. These included classrooms; workshops; staff offices; refreshment areas; animal housing; storage; a vegetable garden; poultry orchard and butterfly tunnel.
The process has established a close working relationship between Cave, LBH, B2E. All working towards the one goal of building Haringey’s first Zero Carbon structure that would be built and co-designed with the help of local residents. Ultimately providing a beautiful, fun place to safely learn about the environment, animal welfare, where food comes from and how it is grown.
Broadwater Community Garden
Client: Back2Earth
The client Back II Earth wanted to improve the Broadwater Farm community centre by creating 2 types of community gardens.
The first to be a vegetable garden for the local residents to participate in growing their own fruit and veg. As the community centre is also used for many functions, the clients also requested a formal garden for attendance outside.
The other garden would be a children’s garden. An interactive colourful garden for children to become aware of their natural environment through learning how to grow and prepair their own fruit and veg.
Malawi - Landirani Eco-village
Client: Landirani
The Landirani Village is a unique and innovative opportunity working with the community to develop a design based on improving local building techniques. The method of research is to establish relation ships with local craftspeople, analysing their traditions and visiting sites to see the diversity of Malawian architecture.The knowledge collected will help to develop new, sustainable and improved details for the Malawian architectural vernacular and for future Cave building projects.
Sustainability is a key element running through out the brief, in terms of the villages construction, relationship with its environment, socially and economically.
Preston - Wheatfields
Competition: 2009 in collaboration with amazonails
Wheatfields is a low cost, high quality sustainable development that will (through community consultation and involvement) generate skills, confidence, pride and a sense of community. Also inspiring and educating all that live in and around these beautiful Strawbale homes.
The Wheatfields development relates to its immediate surroundings by maintaining existing desire lines across the site. This will create a sensitive relationship with the existing St Ignatius conservation area and form a new open street façade towards St Pauls Rd. The architectural language already existing in St Ignatius Square is continued along Meadow Street (maintaining building heights, front gardens and trees), re-establishing the street façade with a contemporary take on the vernacular terraced houses of the conservation area.
