Both projects aimed to create mixed-use, sustainable developments through diverse and integrated designs. Jubilee Wharf in Britain included affordable housing, commercial space, and public areas on the ground floor. Via Verde in New York transformed a brownfield into low, middle and market-rate housing organized around shared green spaces. Both incorporated renewable energy sources, green roofs, and other eco-friendly features to reduce their environmental impact while fostering socially diverse communities.
13. Design
Energy
Water Conservation
Water treatment
Materials
Maintenance
Waste
Community
Access, Equality & Diversity
Sustainability features - bedzed
27. “We wanted to have the greenness grow out of the architecture We oriented the complex so that the
architecture.
height of the buildings steps up from south to north bathing the entire site in sunlight. That stepped
north,
form became the origin for the series of green roofs that also recapture the landscape lost by
constructing the buildings."
Sustainable typology
51. Both projects reflects a commitment to a new kind of sustainability -
not just the environmental sustainability of green roofs and
compact fluorescents but also the social and economic sustainability
that can only result from housing with a mix of incomes and uses.
