From the start of the Battersea project, urbanest challenged the design team to create something special. A local landmark of quality. 

The challenge in design terms was to create an intelligent mixed-use urban development with long term flexibility that provided real benefit to the local community. Passivhaus was the added layer that ensured responsible development. 

Clearly, the time is right for a development such as this, given environmental needs and local and student attitudes, but the challenge was to take a proven concept of sustainable residential development and scale it up to an 850 bed mixed use development. 

Hear from Simon Alford, Executive Director & Head of Design Studios, at AHMM, the award-winning architects tasked with creating urbanest Battersea…