Stretford Mall
Trafford, Manchester
Services
- Architecture
- Interiors
Team
- Client: CERT
- Planning Consultant: ENABL
- Landscape: Layer Studio
Area
- 9700 sqm
Cost
- £25,000,000
Project Overview
Stretford Mall is being redeveloped. Phase one has involved rejuvenating the Northern portion of the Mall as a commercial landscaped street and adapting the multi storey car park. Phase two involves removing part of the mall and relandscaping the car park. Plot 3 designed by Architectural Emporium is then to be developed with 100 apartments within a stepped L shaped block and 16 townhouses to the South facing the existing housing on Wellington Street. The housing is arranged around a communal courtyard, with high quality landscape at the heart of proposals.
“Working with Architectural Emporium across a number of our projects, including Stretford Mall and Albert Street, has been a consistently excellent experience. Their team combines strong creative vision with a pragmatic and collaborative approach, which has been invaluable in moving these complex projects forward.”
Chris Hosty, Head of Design and Regeneration, CERT
The two main entrances are linked via a colonnade with the main shared facilities, 3 building cores and external spaces positioned alongside to unite residents and encourage social interaction. Massing is designed to increase dual aspect apartments and reduce North facing only apartments.
The scheme features an inner and outer façade, with a playful approach adopted to the interplay between the two, which are tonally distinct. The outer frame is used to shade the Southern facades and accommodates inset balconies. The outer façade also reduces in scale adjacent to neighbouring lower rise housing.
Every apartment features private external space and bedrooms are avoided at ground floor level with duplexes and houses with ground floor living spaces linking to private gardens. Townhouses also feature roof gardens and are set back from the street to accommodate front gardens and street planting.
Brick detailing is introduced to add a finer grain to the façade at street level and to define commercial and public facing service uses. A brick skirt runs along the outer façade with frieze detailing and planted copings utilised to cap facades.
