Plot 1 Silverthorne Lane is the University of Bristol’s flagship innovation hub within the Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus, forming a key gateway between the city, the Feeder Canal, and the emerging academic quarter. The 0.56-hectare site reimagines a post-industrial landscape—once marshland and later canal-side warehouses—into a vibrant, ecologically rich workplace rooted in long-term climate adaptation and public life.

Designed by AHMM with landscape led by MOOWD, the scheme weaves together layered systems of ecology, water, access, and heritage to deliver a resilient and inclusive public realm. The site’s varied edge conditions—Avon Street, Silverthorne Lane, and the canal—are unified through a sequence of integrated spaces: a terraced SuDS garden, cantilevered canal walkway, biodiverse roof terraces, flexible courtyards, and heritage-inspired plazas.

Across the site, the landscape design prioritises material reuse, biodiversity, inclusive access, and storytelling. Robust detailing and marshland-inspired planting form a narrative bridge between ecological memory and contemporary use. The result is a bold civic and ecological landscape that achieves high Urban Greening Factor targets and strengthens Bristol’s ambition for a connected and sustainable waterfront.