Walnut Tree Close

Providing 90 studio apartments, a range of internal and external communal amenity spaces and an enhanced landscape setting responding to the dual frontages of Walnut Tree Close and The River Wey.

An integrated design approach has been used for the architecture and landscape to maximise the unique opportunity of this location and to create a strong relationship between the building and its immediate landscape setting. This approach has provided a holistic response to this new urban development and resulted in a building that is embedded into the site and surrounding context.

The use of columnar trees in the landscape adjacent to the Walnut Tree Close façade creates a strong relationship between the vertical rhythm of the building. The landscape has also been used to provide continuity to the streetscape between the development and an adjacent scheme , with ornamental planting used to provide a human scale to this active frontage. For the riverside frontage, a more ‘fluid’ design approach has been taken, responding to the context of the River Wey and reflected in the form of the surfaces and articulated with indigenous planting. This more naturalistic response to the planting further embraces the riverside setting.