How trauma informed design creates 'Hope' - Award winning mixed-use project скачать в хорошем качестве

How trauma informed design creates 'Hope' - Award winning mixed-use project

Can you design in a way to replace negatives with positives such that a building is a tool in the work of healing from trauma? This was the task faced by Paul Bulkely, Snug Architects and Mike Worthington, previously Snug, now People Architects. Hope Street is a pioneering project, opened by HRH Princess of Wales, will provide a positive residential environment for justice involved women. The vision of the client, a charity, One Small Thing, was to create a ground-breaking trauma informed approach to support justice involved women thus empowering them to have better lives and achieve better outcomes for themselves, their children and society. Social sustainability was also matched by its environmental sustainability. Hope Street meets BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ rating, achieving a 93% carbon saving with excellent levels of thermal insulation, air source heat pump heat supply, natural daylighting and reducing the embodied energy of the fabric through a cross laminated timber frame. Hope Street, won the prestigious RIBA MacEwen Award in 2024. This is the leading national award for Architecture for the Common Good. The Award celebrates architecture with a greater purpose, and recognises projects that address the pressing social, economic, and environmental issues of our time, such as inclusion, sustainability, community building, and poverty alleviation. One judge commented ‘Hope Street is the only project that almost had me crying... we hear of the architect as being a doctor of space and this is an example of architecture that is healing people,’