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Forum House, Wembley

Client: Quintain Estates & Development

Role: Architecture, Masterplanning, Landscape Architecture, Environmental Services and Interior Design

Forum House sets a high quality precedent for the Wembley City development, a dynamic, stylish, sustainable community-orientated neighbourhood where people will thrive.

Forum House embodies a feeling of inclusion and community for residents and commercial tenants. The design wraps the building around a communal landscaped courtyard, providing a safe space for families and residents.

The architectural language is one of restraint and simplicity, with repetitive modular motifs and layered textures. The elevation treatment varies according to aspect and location. The robust lower floors are expressed in irregular strips of stone cladding, tying the base into the landscape. The second to sixth floors express the main mass of the building as a crisp white geometrical form resting on the stone plinth. The façades are articulated with balconies, enclosed to the west and to the courtyard with sliding glazed screens and timber panels, to provide further contrast, depth and layering. At roof level, duplex apartments open onto roof terraces.

Forum House boasts sound environmental sustainability credentials. Rainwater harvesting from the roof is stored for watering plants and a Combined Heat and Power system provides hot water, heating and electricity to the whole building. It is also the first UK residential development to adopt the ENVAC system for waste disposal.

The completed scheme provides 286 apartments, comprising 50% social housing units, all benefiting from a 24 hour concierge service. Ground floor retail space comprises an employment portal serving the local community and a cra¨che.

Client and end user satisfaction reflects the project's high quality and design standards, evident in private rental values which are 23 - 50% above the market rate for the area.