Examining Hogeweyk
The new elements that make up a contemporary care facility can be inserted into the ‘back yard’ spaces to provide circulation spaces and shared facilities necessary for specialist household units.
In this example the footprint of lines of terraced housing is suitable for conversion into bedrooms which benefit from direct access to the front streets, retaining the original building facades maintaining the original building’s character.
The characteristically repetitive layouts of industrial era workers housing can be taken advantage of by employing off-site construction techniques that deliver more quantifiable, sustainable and repeatable modular solutions.
The new elements that make up a contemporary care facility can be inserted into the ‘back yard’ spaces to provide circulation spaces and shared facilities necessary for specialist household units.