Oxlow Lane Housing

Avanti has now completed on the Oxlow Lane scheme which provides 60 mixed tenure homes for Be First, the regeneration arm of Barking and Dagenham Council.

The building is highly responsive to the unique context and opportunities for retention of mature trees and enhancement of green landscape and public realm. It is folded and shaped to respond to existing mature trees, creating high quality publicly accessible landscape with meadow planting around the public edge of the site. The building scale is carefully modulated, stepping up to address the prominent corner on a busy crossroads. Materials and details are carefully considered, with elegant use of brick and well proportioned full height fenestration.

The building wraps a communal garden and protects it from the noise and pollution of a busy nearby junction. The building therefore has an external formal civic character and a more informal internal identity with large projecting balconies providing apartments with a direct relationship with the garden.