Campden Hill Landscape Design

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Landscape design for Campden Hill

Native Land and Grosvenor, together with John McAslan Partnership as the architects, commissioned RSA in March 2010 to provide landscape and urban realm consultancy services for this prestigious Campden Hill residential project overlooking Holland Park.

The site is a former part of the campus of Holland Park Comprehensive and is situated in possibly one of the most desirable residential locations in London, adjacent to Holland Park and within the Kensington Conservation Area.

The overall concept is to create a landscape design that is in harmony with its surroundings. The design seeks to achieve an elegant, calm, balanced and harmoniously proportioned composition, which responds well to the site context.

The strategy is to create a formal landscape at the centre of the site, which responds to the requirements of residents for visual and functional amenity. Towards the edges the site becomes a more informal woodland setting extending the qualities from Holland Park into the site. The courtyard at the heart of the site is ordered, formal and symmetrical with a reflecting pool. Residents are provided with useful, elegant and robust spaces with ground floor apartments facing out onto private courtyard gardens. All residents have use of a communal garden courtyard and an entrance courtyard/arrival space that contains a wall of water separating the site from Campden Hill Walk.

Gardens linked to the ground floor flats flank the east and west boundaries of the site and an area of existing woodland screen the site to the south. Existing trees provide a mature framework for a woodland belt proposed to encircle the site to the east, south and north.