London, UK
The Nest addresses the limited opportunities available to young adults wishing to take a first step away from home while staying close to family, friends, and the community.
It breathes new life into well-known yet underused town centre follies and community buildings, doubling up as homes for young people.
The Nest is imagined as a series of low-cost, low-carbon interventions that plug into every existing civic structure around the country, providing guardianship in exchange for low-energy homes with private, shared and public spaces, and revitalising the neighbourhood for both existing communities and future generations.
The Nest is imagined as a series of low-cost, low-carbon interventions that plug into every existing civic structure around the country, providing guardianship in exchange for low-energy homes with private, shared and public spaces, and revitalising the neighbourhood for both existing communities and future generations.
The Nest offers a unique living experience within a community-focused, regenerative, climate-resilient landscape.
A diversity of skillsets, ideas and ties to community are the highest forms of currency - The Nest’s residents might include a trainee doctor, boxing coach, or care worker.
A diversity of skillsets, ideas and ties to community are the highest forms of currency - The Nest’s residents might include a trainee doctor, boxing coach, or care worker.
The landscape is designed as a ‘garden for the community’, employing a stewardship model, to maintain, manage, grow and adapt the space as needed. A regenerative urban garden that is cultivated for, and by, the people who live here.
Client: The Alan Davidson Foundation
Year: 2024
Location: London, UK
Collaborators
Tuckey Design Studio
Office Sian
Poplar HARCA
Webb Yates
Jane Derges
