Environment of World's End Place

As the trees are relatively new they do not seem to fit in yet but with time they will adapt and make the space appear more organic and natural, bridging the clear gap between The Worlds End Place Estate and King’s Road. The space does not seemingly have very strong green considerations. Although there are trees planted there are not enough to suggest that it is strongly environmentally friendly. Speaking in terms of the colour palette too, the trees are too timid to make a striking green in the area. 

In the winter, the trees will help act as a wind break along with the surrounding buildings but the downside will also be that it hinders sunlight into the area to provide lighting and warmth. The available spot floor lights and lamp posts are not strong enough on their own as a major light source so at night time may not be an ideal/safe place to hang out. Another downside to the surrounding buildings and trees is that they funnel neck the rest of the wind into the space making it very blustery and chilly. However, in the summer this generates a welcoming shady area.

Quite bare, demonstrating minimal interaction

A message of encouragement for interaction is not really present in the site as, physically, there is little solid structure within. Also, if the intentions of the architect were to help bridge the two communities, cover any dissimilarities in environment and encourage communication then he has not 100% succeeded. Those living on the side of the World’s End Place estate stay on their half, socialising in their local cafe and newsagents whereas those living in the houses opposite (as we have observed) hardly exit their doors to come cross the road but just walk down King’s Road to other destinations. It is not hard to see why they would go someplace else as the estate can be quite intimidating, there can be quite aggressive voices and behaviour accumulating in this space and observing their behaviour felt at times uneasy.  

World's End Estate half

Looking towards the other side away from the estate

The estate in our opinion is more dominating than the site itself, the focal point has wrongly been redirected to the orange mud coloured building rather than the newly constructed £1.4million area; residents have expressed their astonishment at the figure seeing price surpass the outcome.