Hungate - Building D

Description

The landscape design for Karma house provides a range of outdoor spaces for its resident students and visitors. An 'urban forest' of densely planted birch trees provides greening and softening to the streetscape at the entrance whilst allowing free pedestrian movement on the pavement. The south garden offers space for formal and informal interaction. A large picnic / outdoor study table. A sunny lawn space for relaxing. The roof of the ancillary building accommodates planted areas with mounds to allow sufficient soil depth for tree planting. A mix of low herbaceous and grasses planting acts as groundcover and provides a green carpet.

Planning History

Outline planning permission was previously granted for a hotel ranging in height from 8 to 17 storeys comprising a 120-bedroom hotel & 108 timeshare or apartment hotel units. In January 2013 HTA were engaged by the original owner and subsequently Tide Contracting UK Ltd to develop the design to suit their Vision Modular Construction System. HTA worked closely with Brent to develop a detailed design for the construction of a part 9 , part 14, part 17 and part 19-storey building comprising 450 rooms of student accommodation and associated facilities with planning granted on in October 2013.