The Living Spine proposes a new model of living on Liverpool’s Festival Gardens site, centred on care, flexibility, and community. The project responds to the question “How do we live?” by integrating therapeutic spaces with housing to promote wellbeing and reduce pressure on public health services.
The design is structured around three communal spines—Domestic, Kinship, and Forge—which relocate cooking, caregiving, and working into shared spaces. This frees private units to become more adaptable and identity-driven. The building supports a mix of households, from intergenerational families to working adults, creating opportunities for connection and mutual support.
Housing blocks rise above a public-facing ground floor with a therapeutic space that links the homes to the wider landscape. Units feature generous thresholds, integrated planters, and ventilated façades to balance openness and privacy.
The Living Spine promotes a more collective and caring way of living, one that embeds wellbeing into the everyday.
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