Wraps Come Off Olympic Village Master Plan

Wraps Come Off Olympic Village Master Plan

Published on 24-09-2007 by Skyscrapernews.com
Plans for the 2012 Olympic Village in Stratford, east London, have been unveiled.

The massive joint venture with Lend Lease as the lead developer with their partners in the joint venture, First Base and the housing association East Thames will see athletes accommodation for 17,000 sportsmen and officials built that can be converted to 3800 new homes once the games are over. It has been designed and master-planned by Fletcher Priest Architects and Arup Urban Design.

The scheme features dozens of long low-rise blocks of varying twists on modernist housing complexes of the fifties and sixties. They are set around a large number of new parks and open spaces that dominate the middle of the site and include substantial amounts of water features to add a more natural feeling to the outdoors.

The landmark of the scheme is a 40 floor residential tower, looking like a series of stacked cubes combined together that have numerous smaller sections cut out of them creating a slightly irregular shape for what would otherwise be a slab block.

There will also be a new education campus for all ages, healthcare and other community facilities and new links to the transport system, particularly the main hub in the nearby Stratford City to sew it in better with the capital's transport network and even trains to Paris.

These designs are not the final version of what will be built as they have only been released as part of the consultation with the public on the future of the area and are likely to change further with refinements added as the project progresses.

To give an idea of the scale of the project, once completed it will have involved no less than 47 UK and international architecture firms in the design individual buildings.

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