Studio Weave were appointed to lead a collaborative team to develop a community led landscape masterplan towards Pre-App Consultation – building upon initial consultation results obtained by a prior public consultation programme. The project is supported by the Mayor’s Resilience Fund, National Lottery Community Fund, and community crowd funding – all seeking focus on community health and wellbeing, and particularly youth activities.
The proposed scheme accommodates all of the activities and functions which were shortlisted by the ‘Friends of Barnes Common’ with widespread support from their communities: including both architectural intervention to create improved public amenities, and landscape intervention to provide more diverse use.
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Architectural proposals tested clustering around existing buildings adjacent to Vine Road: including validating capacity for a community café, following successful testing of demand via a popup operated in-situ since August 2020. Further feasibility studies tested site layout options for construction of a community social hub outdoor learning building, a community workshop and community growing.
Landscape proposals locate: exercise class spaces, adventure play and incidental play for all ages including informal playgrounds, pump track/skatepark and water play within an ecologically sensitive masterplan. The proposals preserve increasingly wild features as the site extends towards the existing natural brook – and introduces a new wetland area to take full advantage of the brook as a flood resilience measure.
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