Abode at Great Kneighton is a new development just outside Cambridge designed by Proctor and Matthews Architects. Comprising of 306 homes, ranging from studio apartments to five-bedroom houses, the 6.4-hectare site was designed as a sequence of spaces, moving from an urban to rural scale as the homes get closer to the surrounding countryside. The 306 homes form the first phase of a wider development, which will eventually provide around 2,300 new homes across an area of approximately 101 hectares, as well as new schools, healthcare facilities, shops and transport links.
A limited palette of materials was used to accentuate the transition of spaces, with the dominant materials of brick and perforated aluminium at the entrance gradually replaced by timber as the housing gets less dense. Read more here …