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Team leader - Assael ArchitectureAssael has extensive experience in residential-led masterplans and will lead this team of specialist consultants to develop the innovative ‘rightsizer’ idea into an implementable sustainable proposition for the Meridian Water Phase 2 Masterplan.

As a research-driven practice, Assael has become a market leader in the Build to Rent sector through many years of commitment to research and design development, guided by the needs of residents and the requirements of the financial model. Assael’s current research priority has been to study and develop new models for ‘Later Living’. We’re also furthering our research into designing homes and new developments with residents’ wellbeing in mind.

Circular Economy - David CheshireDavid, Regional Director at AECOM, specialises in sustainability in the built environment. He has over 20 years’ experience acting as sustainability champion on construction projects, wrote CIBSE’s Sustainability Guide and authored ‘Building Revolutions’ that explains how to apply the circular economy to the built environment.

Sustainable buildings - AECOMFrom working with the Antarctic expedition to developing true meanwhile use decantable buildings, AECOM is a world leader in designing sustainable buildings. Targeting net-zero carbon, developing embodied carbon calculators, encouraging refurbishment and re-use first, and integrating it all with BIM and virtual reality technology - we’re constantly readdressing what ‘good’ looks like.

High street - Bill GrimseyBill has 45 years experience in retail, including holding senior positions at Budgens, Tesco and Wickes. He authored 2012’s ‘Sold Out: Who killed the High Street’ and led the publication of ‘The Grimsey Review: An alternative future for the High Street’ in 2013, and ‘The Grimsey Review 2’ in 2018.

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Bio-circular green roofs - Dusty GedgeFounder of Livingroofs, Dusty’s latest big idea includes the concept that during a large development’s construction, the C02-negative green roofs are farmed at ground level on the last plot of land to be developed. Farmed green roof cassettes are sold onto the retrofit market until they’re needed on the new development, creating a circular carbon-negative green roof market.

Food system consultant - Jo WilsonJo believes that food is a tool to improve the health of both communities and place. Jo leads the Tower Hamlets Food Partnership, she’s fundraised, designed and delivered food-growing spaces on inner-London housing estates, engaging with local authorities and developers to ensure their legacy, and she leads on greening projects for St James Street Big Local, a lottery-funded community group shaping a neighbourhood in Walthamstow.

Landscape - Exterior ArchitectureExterior Architecture are leading the landscape profession in blending anthropomorphic design with eco innovation, creating symbiotic relationships between the natural world and people’s wellbeing, and healthy environments across all scales and sectors. We are locals, having successfully developed large scale landscape proposals for major regeneration projects in Enfield.

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Wellbeing - Ben ChannonBen - Assael’s Head of Wellbeing - authored the book ‘Happy by Design’ and sits on WELL’s Advisory Board. Ben believes that designing with wellbeing in mind from the outset, featuring across all scales, results in richer developments that add both social and financial value.

Living Roofs and Walls from policy to practice

10 years of urban greening in London and beyond

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RightsizerA high street community for a circular economy

District scaleOur idea is Rightsizer, a high street community that epitomises the fundamentals of a circular economy. We will use regenerative design principles to create an attractive and affordable ‘Housing with Care’ community for older people ‘rightsizing’ from under-occupied family homes in Enfield; these freed-up homes will be delivered back to the market with zero resource use.

Rightsizer will be a resident-led community, located front and centre on ‘Meridian High Street’, engaging with the wider Meridian Water neighbourhood and promoting intergenerational exchange and urban vitality. We respond to the call of The Grimsey Review 2 report:

‘for town centre or high street plans to encompass a complete community hub solution with housing, arts and entertainment facilities and business, sitting alongside retail’.

In a post-pandemic world, we will create a healthy and safe place to live for our residents, designing to the WELL Building Standard. We will create an enriching and rewarding place to work for care givers and health professionals, giving consideration to their needs during design.

Our key regenerative design drivers will be; optimise health and wellbeing; adaptable buildings that retain their value and the value of resources; optimise building performance; enhance biodiversity and local food production; minimise construction waste; low embodied and operational carbon.

We will achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by using high performance modular architecture, minimising in-use energy consumption and generating heat from ground source heat pumps. The warm, humid, C02 laden air rejected from our buildings will be harnessed to grow food in rooftop greenhouses.

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Pymmes Brook

Anaerobic digesters

Rightsizer

Waterside wilderness

Modular Food Brewery

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FARM ENFIELD“the historical breadbasketof London”

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FIRST TIME BUYERS SECOND STEPPERS FAMILY HOMES HIGH STREET RIGHTSIZER1.5 person household4 person household2.5 person household1.5 person household

Delivering local family housing using zero resources

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RightsizerA high street community for a circular economy

Building scaleOur ‘Rightsizer’ community plugs into our reimagined high street, supporting adjacent amenities and underscoring a move away from an over-reliance on generic retail, towards a more resilient economic mix.

We will create a ‘High Street Living Room’ at ground floor facing the street; this will be a community hub curated and managed by our empowered residents. Rightsizer will be the antithesis of an old people’s ghetto.

We will create a ‘Reminiscence Museum’ within our community which will be a cultural repository of 20th Century artefacts, stored and presented for the benefit of residents, local school children and the wider community. Memories, stories and skills will be transmitted across generations.

Our homes will be designed for the needs of older people and will be aspirational, not institutional. We will provide flexible living arrangements that can adapt to people’s changing needs over time.

We will build our homes using precision-engineered timber frame volumetric modules, a low embodied carbon technology. Construction waste will be zero. Final fit-out of the modules will happen nearby in re-purposed industrial sheds with IKEA providing fittings. Modules will be designed to allow them to be dis-assembled and re-used at a later date with zero waste.

Offsite construction will ensure high levels of thermal performance, air tightness and acoustic insulation, and mechanically vented air will be filtered to remove pollutants and bacteria.

Our community will celebrate horticulture and food production with allotment gardens, rooftop greenhouses and a dark UV farm. Biodiversity will be enhanced through use of bio-circular green roofs.

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UV farm

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Ground source heat pump system

‘Rightsizer’ homes

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‘Reminiscence museum’