Project Description
Name – Samares Nursery
Client – GR Langois Ltd.
Location – St. Clement, Jersey
The proposed redevelopment of this redundant horticultural site will provide 200 new homes, 80% of which will be for the social rented market.
The development is broken into a series of pavilion apartments and terraced courtyards that relate to the smaller urban grain of the surrounding context whilst establishing a series of distinct spaces or neighbourhoods.
The neighbourhood principle is reinforced through the use of different materials, varied architectural detail, boundaries and enclosure, pocket green spaces and a particular landscape strategy for each zone.
This approach is intended to impart a heightened sense of ownership, whilst providing an attractive, safe and welcoming place to live. The different neighbourhoods also respond to their particular surrounding context respecting scale, privacy and existing amenity.