Since our four architectural practices came together to publish the first Superdensity report in 2007 many of its recommendations have become accepted best practice. However, the intensity of development in London continues to increase, in some cases way beyond the densities envisaged in our earlier study, and as such we feel it is time to both restate those principles and air emerging concerns.
We are concerned about the immediate social and environmental impacts of very dense developments and their long-term sustainability. We also observe that this new superdensity – which we’ve dubbed hyperdensity when it’s over 350 homes or dwellings per hectare – derives, not from London’s distinctive and popular urban forms, but from global development patterns.
Though the rash of tall towers is a concern, this report is not another campaign against those per se. Rather, it gives positive guidance on how to combine ambitious densities with popular and familiar urban forms.
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