Housing for Life

“Our sustainable home must fit me”.

SCABAL’s shortlisted proposal for a sustainable, participatory
and organic urban development in Salford

Us now,
“It must fit my family. With this in mind, we can make our own bespoke specification.

Us soon,
All these choices will make up our overall year one specification. The potency offer will determine what we can achieve later. Our family will change over time but our needs must be met by the place we live in so right now we’d like to start thinking about our year ten plan right away. Luckily this part of the choosing doesn’t have to happen straight away or if it does, it remains mutable so we can change our minds.

Everyone into the future,
The neighbourhood as a whole is formed by the people who are going to live there. This comes about through a collective process of design, offered as micro-choices and curated by the home-builder working with the architects and project managers to offer the best value for all the neighbours-to-be.

One family over time,
As the neighbourhood will evolve over time according to the ongoing expansions and reductions of individual family needs, it will be desirable to allow for this expansion through a negotiated planning perspective. Outline planning submissions can predict the likely shape of development and place limits on height and density in relation to neighbouring sites.

… the form of the development and its evolution is not dependant on institutions of fixed size. So the form, disposition and placement of the apartments will be determined by the outcomes of the micro choices made by the first 120 families in year one and their subsequent changing family circumstances in future years”.