Category: Affordable Housing

The Standard building is the first phase of the Midsteeple masterplan, a community led and owned regeneration project which aims to revive Dumfries Town Centre. The core of Midsteeple Quarter is to enable the Dumfries community to take control of the re-development of the heart of the town. Intensive community consultation since 2011 identified a desire to bring empty property back into use for housing and enterprise. The focus fell upon a stretch of Dumfries High Street, where almost all […]

The Water Row site in Govan, Glasgow, has long been recognised in planning studies for its pivotal role in the area’s regeneration and the wider transformation of the Clyde waterfront. Building on these insights, Collective Architecture delivered a masterplan in 2018 aimed at revitalising Govan through its strategic town centre location and improved connectivity via the proposed Govan-Partick Bridge. The project’s first phase is a mixed-use development delivered through a partnership between Govan Housing Association, Glasgow City Council, and the […]

Buccleuch Street is an exemplar mixed-use development with new affordable homes that address the climate crisis and help tenants avoid fuel poverty by providing warm, comfortable, homes to Passivhaus standards, as well as revitalising a historic building and an area of Dalkeith that was run down and disconnected from the wider town.The site was originally part of our masterplan for Dalkeith town centre. Workshops were held with stakeholders and the community and included a three-day drop-in and exhibition held in […]

The site layout was carefully considered from project inception, with a series of different options developed and tested. Initial concept sketches leaned towards a more tenemental style of perimeter urban blocks. Sunlight models showed that these prohibited quality daylight from reaching the rear communal garden areas, and many of these would be north facing and heavily shaded. Using the information from the lighting models, Hypostyle looked at the differences in lighting quality of the blocks were smaller stub blocks, with […]

Derby Street delivers the ambitions of the Hilltown Physical Regeneration Framework, renewing a key site through the creation of 162 new homes for Dundee City Council and Hillcrest Housing Association. The housing-led regeneration project restores the site previously occupied by twin multistorey blocks which had become some of the least desirable homes in the city. The urban approach reinstates historic street patterns with a development of family sized houses, tenemental flats, wheelchair accessible homes and supported housing. This approach to […]

Platform 3, Dundashill was the first development within a wider strategic plan to complete on the former Diageo Distillery site in north Glasgow. Elevated 14m above public greenspace, the project features a series of four-storey apartment blocks and a seven-storey landmark building, all with balconies and communal platforms offering panoramic views of Glasgow. Comprising 90 one, two, and three-bedroom mid-market apartments, the project is the largest Passivhaus-accredited residential development in Scotland. It demonstrates an innovative mix of advanced construction methods […]