The Palm House
Healthy homes in which to grow
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The first, purpose built shared living space which invites residents to ‘sleep in your room, live in the building’.
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Previous shared living schemes adapted existing buildings or planning permissions to facilitate shared living; this is different. Through thoughtful design and extensive research, we’ve created a new building, with 222 high-quality private studios and superb shared amenities, helping support residents’ wellbeing and professional growth.
(Our research into this new building typology helped shape the GLA’s guidance for large-scale, purpose built shared living, published earlier this year.)
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Amenities include workspace, event space and a screening room (all bookable on the residents’ app) as well as a library, gym and a cafe. There’s a generous shared kitchen for cooking and dining and two roof terraces, which can be used for small gatherings. All designed to encourage interaction, socialising and friendship.
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Distinctive design features include circular windows in some of the residential units – a playful nod to Grigory Barkhin’s Constructivist Izvestiya publishing and print building – and graffiti art, which illuminates the exposed concrete of the reception, gym and circulation cores, for added fun.
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The Palm House sets the bar very high for shared living development. We are immensely proud of this project and it stands as a beacon for regeneration in the local area.
Project details
Project name: The Palm House
Location: Harrow, London, UK
Service: Social research
Value: £20M – £50M
Scope: Architecture
Clients: Halcyon Development Partners
Status: Complete
Completion date: 2022
Number of homes: 100 - 500
Operator: Folk Co-living
Funder: OLIV (DTZi Investors)
Contractor: Claritas Group
Applied energy: Services Engineer
Daylight & sunlight : eb7
Structural engineer: Engenuiti
Planning: DP9
Landscape architect: DK-CM
Consultation: Kanda
Environmental assessment: Mayer Brown Limited
Photography: Simon Kennedy
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Email: gregmoss@hawkinsbrown.com