Local Centre
Whitelands Farm, Bicester
Client
Countryside Properties
Year
2005
Location
Oxfordshire, UK
Firm
Terence O' Rourke, UK
Developed options for a local centre, the proposed heart of a 3500 unit urban extension to Bicester, a small market town in the UK. Following studies of historic town squares and village greens in the surrounding areas, the final design was a unique response to the context and set a brief for the new development. The clustering of activities for convenience of use, establishing an architectural dialogue to knit the space together and arranged the space as per the sun past. This was also a part of a larger set of studies done to inform the final master plan, and fed into the outline planning application. At a later date, prepared illustrations for various character areas in the detailed stage of the development process. Photographs of the development, below, are taken from Google Streetview (2022).



