Canning Town Estate

Newham Council,
Canning Town, London
Ongoing

Deft.Space is part of a wider design team led by Jestico + Whiles to deliver a masterplan for 1,750 new affordable homes on a site of 7.5 hectares for the London Borough of Newham. We are collaborating with Jestico + Whiles to design the new homes that will be part of the first phase of the development to be built. We are also collaborating with AR Urbanism to deliver an extensive programme of community engagement and co-production. 

For the first phase, Deft.Space designed 5-bed affordable townhouses for larger families on the estate. The design reflects traditional terraces in the local area, but with a contemporary approach with the inclusion of gable walls to the front elevation with profiles that nod to the traditional pitched roof, but instead has a flat green roof behind allowing us to increase biodiversity on the site. The gable walls features hit and miss brickwork, which would bring architectural distinctiveness across the masterplan for the estate.

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