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Marshworth:Milton Keynes
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| ORIGINAL DESIGN
The initial design brief, which is explored in the attached report (which can be reached by clicking here), was rather different. However, once this was literally converted to bricks and mortar, the plan on the ground was:
One of the original plans
At the time the design was conceived the popular form for housing was based on the square, and indeed it still is. There was, it is true, less emphasis than now on properties being ‘detached’; even if such ‘detachment’, often of just a matter of inches, is a now key differentiator of property value. Indeed, housing was only just moving away from the semi-detached model of the 1930s and virtually all public housing was still terraced. On the other hand, the more adventurous com
The bungalows were at the leading-edge of architectural design of the tim
In particular they included the following elements which architects favoured in the 1970s (to see the details please click on whichever item below you wish to explore):
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mercial developments were starting to feature ‘link-detached’ designs, as was the basis for Marshworth. Though the latter has since dropped out of fashion, link-detached housing allowed the maximum amount of use to be made of the site. This is still true, though it demands very well built party walls is there is to be no sound carried across them, something which is no longer on offer in modern timber-framed housing. Fortunately although the original specification for Marshworth called for timber-framing, which was coming in to fashion, the builder couldn't handle this and built very solid brick walls! Accordingly noise transmission has never been a problem, and the shape of the bungalows minimizes other forms of sound crossover.
e, understandably so where they were built to attract the senior professionals and managers the Development Corporation wanted to man its own ranks.