the meadows: group housing

While the idea of vehicle-free ground was explored in the early stages to allow rows of houses to share in between spaces instead of being divided by a road, the developers’ insistence on a conventional brief, however, called for accommodation of more number of units. The challenge in design was then to retain the key spatial ideas. Attempting to elaborate the margin into a courtyard, the housing evolved into clusters of detached units; each with a little front garden and backyard. The verandahs, balconies and roofs create the necessary variations in the building language.