The Stonebridge Hillside Hub is a mixed-use landmark building forming a final phase of a fourteen year long masterplan regeneration of the Stonebridge Estate. The project breaks new ground by taking what was originally envisaged as separate community facilities on separate sites and integrating them together into one building. The overlapping of functions allows each element to serve and be served by the other, making this a self-sustaining building both financially and socially.The building is split into two wings joined by a strongly articulated central section. The top four floors of the wings contain a mixture of shared ownership and privately owned apartments. Below the apartments in the west wing is a three-storey Primary Care Trust Health Centre. Below the apartments in the east wing is a new Tesco Express and a two-storey car park at the rear. Between the two wings is a three-storey Community Centre with a public piazza at the front and a private landscaped garden at the rear. Each part of the scheme is articulated through the massing of the design. The building is purposefully designed so that, from the outside, a visitor can clearly identify individual elements of the overall scheme.The apartments are clad in Siberian larch, the Health Centre is clad in high quality white brick and coloured panels and the Community Centre has a distinctive zinc roof formed as a graceful curve in cross and long section.
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