XIN FENG WONG
UNDERGRADUATE 2021-2024 // UNIVERSITY OF KENT
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CHATHAM INTRA:
SUSTAIN + REVITALISE
SUSTAINABLE URBAN INTERVENTION
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CHATHAM INTRA: FILL IN THE GAP !
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AMITY HOUSE
COLLECTIVE DWELLING
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PROJECTS ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
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STAGE 3 AUTUMN TERM SUSTAINABLE URBAN INTERVENTION
This project has a collaboration between University of Kent’s students and Medway Council which aims to improve Chatham’s declining high street.
This project’s site is located at Chatham, Medway, Kent. The “Chatham Intra” runs along a high roadway that connects the city centers of Chatham and Rochester and is located on the Medway riverbank. This street, which was formerly lined with a number of fine historic buildings, has lost most of its frontage due to the construction of massive, new buildings and obsolete industrial structures that divide it from the riverbank.
This proposal will revitalise the neighborhood’s deteriorating high street and reunite it with the river, Chatham, Rochester and also create a more sustainable town. Part of the high street and riverfront will be pedestrianised and several building will be added, including an urban room, public squares, a mixed-use building, a residential building and a restaurant.
FLOODABLE SINKING SQUARE
MIXED-USE BUILDING (EAST)
URBAN ROOM (WEST)
RESIDENTIAL AREA
PUBLIC SQUARE
PEDESTRIANISED HIGH STREET RESTAURANT (NORTH)
PEDESTRIANISED STREET
PEDESTRIANISED HIGH STREET
RESIDENTIAL LOBBY & COMMON AREA (NORTH)
STAGE 3 SPRING TERM ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
This project also has a collaboration between University of Kent’s students and Medway Council which aims to improve Chatham’s declining high street.
This project’s site is located at Chatham, Medway, Kent. Medway is one of the worst-performing local authorities in the South-East, experiencing unsatisfactory health coondition and economic growth at a significantly slower pace than both its surrounding authorities and the wider region. Therefore, this project aims to improve the health condition and also the economic growth in Chatham.
Furthermore, this project has made some improvements from the previous project, Sustainable Urban Intervention, as both of these projects are related and this project is mainly focusing on repairing the high street frontages by adding a new building in the gap where the previous project’s car park is and extensions and a vertical garden will be added to the west facade of the existing Anchorage House.
The project’s site is located in the north of Sittingbourne town centre, Kent. As the site is surrounded by industrial and retail area with some residential areas further north and west, it’s a site that lack of amity.
This project aims to create a harmonious community at the site, like what it called, Amity House, where can bring the local and resident together in a space although it’s surrounded by industrial and retail buildings.
AIMING TO CREATE A NEW COMMUNITY FOR BOTH RESIDENTS OF AMITY HOUSE AND THE PUBLIC IS IMPORTANT TO MAKE THIS PROPOSAL SUCCESSFUL. BY HAVING PUBLIC SPACES AND RIVERSIDE PEDESTRIAN LANE CONNECTED TO
SITTINGBOURNE TOWN CENTRE ARE THE KEY POINT TO ACHEIVE IN CULTIVATING A NEW COMMUNITY.
TYPICAL DWELLINGS
ONE-BEDROOM FLATS TWO-BEDROOM FLATS
AMITY HOUSE INCLUDES 21 ONE-BEDROOM FLATS, 8 TWO-BEDROOM FLATS AND 8 STUDIO FLATS.
STUDIO FLATS ARE IN A LOFT STYLE WHILE ALL FLATS INCLUDE A LIVING AREA, DINING
AREA, BALCONY TO HAVE A VIEW TO THE RIVER/ CENTRAL PUBLIC SPACE, ENSUIT BEDROOMS.
XIN FENG WONG
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