Mikhail Riches’ Post

NIHR ARC North Thames has released it latest investigation last month, ‘Design For All – A Place To Call Home’, looking at the health, social and economic impacts of homelessness and precarious housing, along with strategies for how to build affordable and sustainable dwellings for those in the UK in greatest need.   The aim is to transform how social and affordable housing is provided and to demonstrate how targets can be met by building high-quality, sustainable and socially balanced communities.   In the report, they propose a transformative national housing plan that seeks to resolve, once and for all, the UK’s housing crisis through policy changes that require an additional £4 billion of Exchequer subsidy to provide around 72,000 extra dwellings each year, built largely by local authorities. Collaborative strategic initiatives are needed to investigate innovative design solutions for a new generation of high-quality, low-energy social/affordable homes for both new and retrofit housing which use new technologies to deliver the scale of output needed and to achieve Net Zero Carbon construction.   We were pleased to contribute to this research, and to see our work referenced throughout the report, with various Mikhail Riches projects cited as specific examples of how building design could help achieve some of the recommendations made.    You can access the full report, and watch the video recording, to discover more about the twelve specific recommendations made to deliver the plan at: https://lnkd.in/eRTaiDvb   #designforall #socialhousing #homelessness #ukhousing #ukarchitecture #netzerohousing      Investigating Team: Adrian Campbell (changebuilding) Prof Murray Fraser (The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL) Olivia Harris (Dolphin Living) John McAslan (John McAslan + Partners) Prof Elena Pizzo (NIHR ARC North Thames / UCL) Prof Rosalind Raine (NIHR ARC North Thames / UCL) Tom Sweetman (DP9 Limited) Dr Nicholas Jewell (The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL) Varthani Kirupanandan (Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust) Kerry Littleford (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U. of London)   Image: Report cover - Duncombe Barracks for City of York Council (CGI by Darcstudio)