Treadgold House Retrofit

Placemaking
Written By SL

We were asked by BowTie Construction to engage the residents in a re-design of the greenspaces surrounding Treadgold House, which is undergoing an award-winning retrofit and will become the UK’s first zero carbon multi-unit. Treadgold House is part of the Lancaster West Estate in Kensington, West London and is managed by the Lancaster West Neighbourhood Team. The inclusion of the green spaces and the balconies into the overall retrofit using a permaculture approach was funded Innovate UK and is hopefully an effort that will become more and more standard practice in the world of construction, renovation and ratrofil.

See below our final presentation with design suggestions to the architects:

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