Nightingale Park

UBU was commissioned to help regenerate a redundant 60s ambulance station into nine contemporary flats and five houses. Situated on the Queens Road, behind Royal Hampshire County Hospital (RHCH) on the fringes of central Winchester, the external proposals required careful consideration and a detailed planting plan sympathetic to the area. A mature belt of beech trees was sensitively incorporated into the scheme.

The scheme is conceived in three parts; a double fronted block, set behind protected trees to Romsey Road, which is divided into three ‘pavilions’ connected by glazed staircase cores. Three houses addressing the Queens Road frontage, respecting its scale and character. Two ‘courtyard’ houses in the south-west corner of the site which respond to the constraints of the topography and surrounding neighbours.

The project was shortlisted for The City of Winchester Trust Design Awards in 2015.