Living
Student Housing Projects
Weston Williamson + Partners
We are a team of 150 professionals in the UK, Australia and Canada, of 15 nationalities, working flexibly and collaboratively with clients and the wider industry.
Our diverse international team members bring their own unique backgrounds and perspectives to projects and to the people that we work with. We are natural collaborators, keen to talk, to listen and to understand. It is by working closely with everyone involved – clients, stakeholders, colleagues and end users - that we deliver successful projects.
We are a design-led practice, full of people who relish a challenge and with a strong record of delivery. Our work is all about the people who use it; how they will inhabit and experience the buildings, places and artefacts that we design. We take a whole life approach, considering how our designs will adapt, retain their relevance and continue to be enjoyed for years to come.
We specialise in creating solutions for complex projects, large or small, international and local. We get to the essence of what people need from buildings and spaces, listening, challenging and responding to clients and stakeholders with elegant, bold solutions. We set out a clear and engaging vision that helps people get involved with the design and the process.
Our ambition is simple but expansive, shaping cities for the future, involving transport, master planning, public space, environment and living. People are at the heart of everything we do. We want to design buildings and places that are a pleasure to use and create civilised beautiful environments that enrich lives.
Adding value
Our clients: We have delivered purpose-build student accommodation (PBSA) schemes for a range of clients, including leading international rental residential providers, Greystar Ltd.; modular construction contractors Tide Ltd.; and Carrowmore Property Ltd. We have also supported further clients such as Network Rail and Be First in the early consideration of student or rental accommodation within wider masterplans, advising on early design considerations in relation to location, massing and spatial requirements. We enjoy working closely with all of our clients in order to ensure that projects meet all of their aspirations, in relation to design, quality, value and branding.
Our Approach: Student housing design involves more than just creating a room. It is about creating a home from home that is not only welcoming and comfortable to live in, but that also offers much more in terms of social and well-being amenities. Designs need to balance between privacy and community, quiet and social and also age and interests. The hallmark of a well-designed student accommodation is the successful integration of a range of spaces for all types of students to live, study and socialise, whilst also supporting and enabling the lives of the students who are mostly learning how to live on their own for the very first time.
Our Value: As the options for high quality student housing increases in our university towns and cities, new developments need to stand out and be attractive to new students. We understand that the most important factor for students when selecting a place to live is value for money. Students are looking not only for affordable accommodation, but also other elements that add value, such as gyms, fast wifi and on-site security. Our PBSA schemes incorporate high quality amenities, whilst ensuring schemes remain viable for our clients. Our schemes also include a range of room types to meet the varying budgets that students have for their accommodation, including studios and two-dios, as well as clusters flats which often offer greater value.
Increasingly, students are also looking for an accommodation that will support their wellbeing. We incorporate high quality communal and social spaces to support interaction, and to enable the activities of groups or clubs that can further support for student wellbeing. Further factors that students look for in PBSA include location, offer of amenities and quality of design and accommodation.
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Our Expertise: We have worked on multiple student living projects from inception through to interior fit-out, in key student cities including London, Dublin and Galway. These projects demonstrate our understanding of the key qualities of both private spaces - including studio bedrooms and bedroom clusters with shared kitchen facilities - as well as vibrant and attractive communal areas which enhance the quality of life for students and allow for positive social interaction between them.
We carefully incorporate and balance vibrant spaces with a mix of uses such as landscaped outdoor seating areas, private study areas, communal gyms and use a common thread of interior specification throughout to create a space that feels like home. Our designs offer a range of spaces that suit first time students through mixed clusters of rooms, through to private studios that might attract older students.
We have been involved in the design and delivery of both the building design and interior design elements of student living projects. We bring our own unique approach to every project, and are experienced in both accommodating in our designs established design guidance that captures a developer’s own branding, as well as developing interior designs from inception. We always ensure that proposals are unique, contextual, and that students will have a sense of pride in where they live, and will enjoy using the spaces on offer.
We have delivered buildings using both traditional and modern methods of construction, the latter being particularly suited to student accommodation due to the repetitive room types. Through our projects at Thurston Road, Lewisham, and our latest student development of 250 rooms on St James’s Road in Southwark we are experts in the design and delivery of volumetric modular construction. This form of construction has realised many benefits to our clients, including speed of construction, a high level of quality control, and reduced waste.
Value for money is the most important factor influencing student’s decisions on where to live. This is not entirely driven by cost, with students willing to pay a premium for certain features and amenities. Student Accommodation Survey 2020, Knight Frank and UCAS
London Student Living
Thurston Road Thurston Road, London,UK Client: Tide Construction c. 611 bedspaces: 260 studios, 88 clusters (3, 4 and 5 bed) c. 750m2 communal facilities: study space, social space, gym, games room, laundry, bike storage, staff offices and reception lobby Typical Floor Plan
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The Thurston Road student housing and work-space development regenerated a linear brownfield site adjacent to a railway embankment and forms part of the wider Lewisham town centre masterplan. The development provides 611 student bedrooms and ground level commercial space in two 12-storey blocks. The use of volumetric construction accounted for approximately 90% of the buildings overall floor area, overcoming a number of site constraints and ensuring significant benefits with regards to reducing on site waste, associated traffic movement, noise and dust pollution, transport related CO2 emissions, safer construction and a shorter inconvenience period for neighbours. Each of the 636 modules were delivered to site and installed in just over 3 months, with completion of the full development achieved in 10 months.
A big thank you to everybody associated with the project. It just goes to show what a united and dedicated team can deliver. Lets hope we will do many more projects together. � John Fleming, Tide Construction
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Chapter Lewisham Chapter Lewisham Interiors, London,UK Client: Greystar c. 611 bedspaces: 260 studios, 88 clusters (3, 4 and 5 bed) c. 750m2 communal facilities: study space, social space, gym, games room, laundry, bike storage, staff offices and reception lobby
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We worked with Greystar undertaking interior design services developing the design, the specifications, and layouts for the communal areas of the Chapter Lewisham development, ensuring a high quality of fit-out throughout. The internal arrangement of each block is driven from this contextual analysis and a motivation to create a set of functional, easy to navigate spaces. At ground floor, communal spaces and commercial units are placed along Thurston Road, creating active frontage to the street. Careful planning of the residential floors offers a range of accommodation, including studios and cluster units with shared communal spaces. Cores are placed centrally minimising circulation routes, with cluster units towards the ends of each layout, taking advantage of fantastic city views east and west. We worked closely with Greystar to accommodate their branding into each of the spaces, whilst also ensuring proposals were unique and contextual.
The student residence at Chapter Lewisham is a high quality addition to our growing portfolio of properties across London. We are privileged to play a part in the ongoing regeneration of Lewisham town centre� Troy Tomasik, Managing Director Investments, Greystar Europe Holdings
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Chapter Highbury II Holloway Road, London,UK Client: Tide Construction Operator: Greystar RIBA Stages – 3-7 260 bed spaces 250m2 communal space: study room, social space, gym, games room, laundry, bike storage, cinema room, reception lobby First Floor Plan
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Dates - 2017 - 2018
We assisted Greystar Europe Holdings in the delivery of their 257-bed student accommodation scheme along Holloway Road (Chapter Highbury II) with Tide Construction Ltd. We developed the interior design for the communal spaces, including the study room, social spaces, gym, laundry and reception lobby, and monitored their delivery on site. Our proposals brought innovation and originality to these key communal areas, whilst working within the clients agreed objectives, parameters and branding. Throughout our involvement in a series of Greystar student developments, we have become expert in the company’s student accommodation brand, Chapter Living. We have been able to use this knowledge to effectively monitor and assist sub-contractors during the delivery phases, making sure that the established brand is fully realised and consistent during all elements of the projects design and delivery.
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Chapter White City Savoy Circus, London,UK Client: Tide Construction c. 306 beds: 288 studios and 16 adaptable studios 350sqm communal space: study room, social space, gym,laundry, bike storage, staff offices, reception lobby, cafe RIBA Stages - 3-7 Ground Floor Plan
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Savoy Circus is an addition to the growing portfolio of properties grouped under the Chapter Living Brand. In line with each of these properties, Savoy Circus had its own unique design identity made up of a consideration of the Chapter Brand – recognisable design ethos and materiality; local identity – references to local vernacular or established identity of the local area and building context; and building identity – the existing building limitations and opportunities. Weston Williamson were appointed to develop the interior design of the communal spaces for Savoy Circus including the Study room, social space, gym, laundry, WCs, reception lobby, cinema. We drew inspiration from the history of the site, as well as the design of the proposed building, to deliver a cohesive and unique design for these spaces.
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Chapter Old Street Paul Street East, London,UK Client: Greystar 200 bed spaces c. 300sqm communal space RIBA Stages - 0-7 Dates - Ongoing Ground Floor Plan
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Weston Williamson prepared designs for renovating the reception area and converting some 2 bed cluster rooms into one bed units. We have also put forward outline proposals for the buildings possible future extension including a new courtyard pavilion building to include new communal spaces. The site is occupied by two existing blocks of student accommodation to the east and west. The two blocks are separated by a central courtyard landscape amenity space. There is an active retail unit at the north end of the ground floor in the west block.
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St. James’ Road Old Kent Road, Southwark, London, UK Client: Tide Construction Ltd.
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The proposal at St James’ Road consists of a new, nine storey, 250 bed student building with a cafe / small commercial unit at ground floor with social and communal student spaces located on the lower ground floor. The street edges to St. James’s Road and Rolls Road will be activated by the cafe and commercial unit, whilst the communal facilities at ground floor will provide connectivity and interest along the street edge. The building defines the south west corner of the junction providing a backdrop to the cross roads and the approach roads to the junction. The proposal will provide a catalyst for other urban realm improvements around the junction and to the adjacent school on Rolls Road. Internally the accommodation in the development comprises of 29 clusters ranging from 3 beds to 10 beds as well 44 studios of which 28 are fully accessible. Each cluster benefits from a shared living space. Shared amenity space for the students is located at lower ground floor, with dedicated social, laundry and study spaces. We developed an innovative window and ventilation panel systems that achieved current ventilation requirements while ensuring safety for residents. Extruded aluminium cappings give a crisp appearance to the openings within the overall the massing. This scheme is currently being delivered on-site using modular construction, and we have recently been appointed to develop the interior packages for the development.
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I just want let you know, that we are very happy with the great work produced by the team... I’m looking forward to bringing the design further over the coming months.� John Byrne, Design Manager, Tide Construction
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Dublin, Ireland Client: Cairn Homes / Carrowmore RIBA Stages - 0-7 (communal interiors only) 290 bed spaces: 61 clusters and 28 studios c. 700sqm communal area: common room, games area, two study rooms, cinema room, gym, yoga room, communal dining room, meeting room and laundry Dates - 2018 - 2020
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Weston Williamson + Partners was commissioned by Cairn Homes and Carrowmore to develop interior design proposals for student brand ‘Fresh’. This student development on Cork Street, Dublin will deliver c.350 student bed spaces. We developed the interior design for the different bedroom types and the communal spaces, which include reception areas, common rooms, study rooms, cinema rooms, communal dining rooms and gyms. Following a rapid design concept and development stage, we supported the client developing the tender pack and undertook the detailed design work. Our design proposals centre around well designed joinery pieces, a simple colour palette, and robust materials – a key consideration with student accommodation! We used a family of joinery items throughout the public and private parts of the development. In the bedroom spaces the joinery items make up bedside shelving, wardrobe, desk and shelving units, with integrated lighting and power sockets. In the communal spaces the family of joinery items include room dividers / screens incorporating planting and lighting, a range of seating types, such as fixed benches, movable benches and tiered cinema room seating, and different types of study desks.
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Galway, Ireland Client: Cairn Homes / Carrowmore RIBA Stages - 0-7 (communal interiors only) 200 beds: 260sqm communal area: common room, games area, JOHN FLEMING A R C H I T E C T S
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Student Accommodation at Fairgreen Road, Galway DRAWING
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Weston Williamson have developed the interior spaces for a second ‘Fresh’ development on Fairgreen Road in Galway. The internal spaces have been designed to amplify social, intellectual and fun experiences – all essential aspects of student life. It will be a dynamic and inspiring place to be, while also having the qualities of a home away from home. Different ‘rooms’, zoned by function, feed off the central promenade, accommodating a variety of activities and range of user group sizes. Screening devices define these spaces while maintaining visibility between them, creating a vibrant layering of activity. Upholstery and wall colours have been selected to reflect the greenery of the central courtyard, and the use of interior planting further enhances this connection. Accent lighting is introduced at a domestic scale, through floor lamps, and integrated into furniture. A family of joinery elements, fixtures, fittings and lighting are adapted and used throughout the communal spaces and bedrooms to give a cohesive identity throughout the development. Bedrooms have been designed to be comfortable, stylish and functional, with opportunities for students to express their own personality. Branding and wayfinding graphics will be layered onto surfaces to reinforce the Fresh Living experience. This concept approach has been developed to ensure adaptability across different locations, with consistent and recognisable spatial experiences that are clearly part of the ‘Fresh Living’ brand.
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Shared Living For All
Shared Living For All The model of communal living is not limited to students; the ease and flexibility of the ‘subscription’ model of housing is appealing to a much wider range of people. This includes young people who are not ready for home ownership and want less stressful rental living arrangements, flexible contracts and better social and amenity offers. This also includes older people who are looking to downsize and improve social interactions, with access to reliable servicing such as cleaning and easy access to amenities such as gyms, concierge and varied support when needed.
Our Approach: We are delivering co-living of different types for our clients, such as for the private-rental sector. Our approach to these projects aims to improve user wellbeing and social interaction, offering high quality private living spaces alongside communal amenity spaces and facilities, often offering additional services such as cleaning and concierge.
We consider the appropriateness of different living models at the earliest stages of a project, considering how they can contribute to the richness of a wider residential masterplan, and support our client in understanding the viability of such schemes. We consider where such schemes will make a positive contribution to the surrounding context, and what different users will look for in terms of location.
Our Value: Co-living schemes present the opportunity for a residential development to contribute to the wider community, which we seek to achieve through successful ground floor design and uses, using amenity spaces to bridge the connection between the new and existing residents.
We ensure that amenity spaces are designed and sized to allow for the optimum sized groups in order to aid social cohesion. Incidental meeting opportunities are also encouraged through designs to maximise social interaction; through shared pathways, clusters circulation and pausing spaces such as seating in shared spaces. We ensure that private spaces are of high quality, well proportioned, and benefit from innovative storage solutions.
London Shared Living
Pocket Living Woolwich, London, UK Client: Pocket Living RIBA Stages – Competition Commercial at ground, micro living above Dates - Ongoing
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Our winning design for Pocket Living proposed an innovative and space efficient two bedroom starter home of just 52sqm. Pocket Living challenged entrants to build on their established concept of compact and affordable one bedroom spaces to deliver a two bedroom design for young families or sharers. Our concept was simple, desirable and delightful. It removed all the wasted space found in many modern homes and showed that you can have a high quality, living space of just 52sqm. The principle activity spaces are at the centre, supported by sleeping and washing annexes to either side. The ‘engine’ spaces for cooking and washing are located against the entrance wall. This simple arrangement offers substantial flexibility, and critically, keeps isolated circulation space to a bare minimum. The design is robust and repetitive allowing it to be used in multiple configurations for different living requirements. By using prototype models we demonstrated how the space can be configured for couples, single parent households, young families and shared purchasers. The two bedroom space can be easily combined with the one bedroom layout to create floor plates for future mixed tenure residential buildings.
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In many respects the Weston Williamson submission epitomises the ‘Compact not Micro’ mantra. At 52 sqm the layout is one of the most compact footprints proposed, however the plan is also one of the most functional and practical. The panel thought that Weston Williamson’s submission offered an optimum balance of flexibility and practicality, with a generous storage allocation.” Pocket Living Judging Panel
Raleigh Gardens Merton, London, UK Client: Merantun Developments Ltd Appointed RIBA Stages: 1-7 36 new homes Private Rental Sector March 2019 - ongoing
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Weston Williamson have gained planning approval to transform a disused car park into 36 new homes for the Private Rental Sector (PRS) at Raleigh Gardens. The scheme proposes an urban block which complements the local surroundings and makes a positive contribution to the streetscape. An efficient floor plan layout maximised the value of this site for our client. The form of the building is broken into two elements, which step in height and plan, to provide visual interest along the street frontage, and to increase daylight to the neighbouring residential development. The scheme was developed to meet the specific PRS need in the borough, delivering high quality and sustainable 1- and 2-bed homes for rent. Oversized balconies, additional storage space, built-in wardrobes and appliances have all been provided to ensure that residents can enjoy a high quality and comfortable life in these homes. We have worked with the client to develop an interior design concept that will be used across all of their PRS developments in the borough - offering high quality and robust finishes throughout.
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Barking Town Centre Barking, UK Client: Be First RIBA Stages – 0-1 c. 2,200 new homes - 60% private sale, 40% affordable c. 245,000 sqft commercial / retail Dates – 2018 Masterplan
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Our proposal for Barking Town Centre looked to reinvigorate and transform the area around Barking Station, delivering c. 2,200 new homes together with new commercial and social infrastructure all connected by over 2 hectares of new clean, green, accessible open spaces. A new high street serves as an urban cultural magnet, linking the existing civic centre and town squares to more isolated communities in the north. The scheme is characterised by a phased approach, with each plot bringing forward between 100 and 400 residential units within vibrant mixed use developments and landscaping. We identified at the masterplan stage which plots would be suitable for specialist housing, including student accommodation, private rental sector (PRS) and housing for older residents. Student housing and PRS homes were located on higher density plots closer to the town centre and transport hub, due to the greater desire for connectivity to high street amenities and transport connections. We proposed sheltered houses on lower density plots that had good connectivity to the town centre, but benefitted from quieter surroundings and high quality shared amenity spaces.
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Birmingham Shared Living
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Argyle Works Birmingham, UK Client: Northacre RIBA Stages – 0-1 c. 170 new PRS homes / student rooms c. 59,000 sqft commercial / retail / co-working
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Create a development that contributes to the urban character through interaction with local context.
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Our mini-masterplan for Argyle Works in Birmingham proposed a mixed use masterplan, with a focus on delivering PRS and student homes. A new central public square is proposed at the heart of the site, enhancing the setting of the two listed buildings, and creating a space for community interaction. Routes through the site connect this public square and residents of the scheme with adjacent open space and routes in to the city centre. The PRS blocks were designed to have generous amenity spaces - both at ground floor, activating the routes through the site, but also in the form of private courtyards and roof terraces. The student accommodation block also has generous amenity space at ground floor, opening on to the public square, encouraging interaction between students and the local community.
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