Todlaw Housing
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Cluster of 14 semi-detached houses and a shared services facility for people with disabilities, around a quiet street
Todlaw Housing is an accommodation solution for disabled people to follow a housing model rather than that of an institutional care home.
The houses are set out around a ‘tartan grid’ which creates a varying relationship between houses and the road. Some houses are set back further from the road than the convention, whilst others are set close to the road edge. There is also a mixture of gables and eaves adjacent to the road which adds to the streetscape character. The commonly understood character of a home is created by designing duo pitched roof form with gables at either end.
OCA’s urban design framework for the surrounding area aims to ensure that the care facility will integrate into areas of future social and private housing.
Data
- Begun: Aug 2007
- Completed: Jun 2008
- Sectors: Residential, Healthcare
- Total cost: £1.4M
- Procurement: SBCC JCT 2005
- CO2 Emissions: 39kg/m2/year
- Address: Todlaw Housing, Station Road, Duns, TD11 3GA, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: Oliver Chapman Architects
- Project architect: Oliver Chapman
- Client: Berwickshire Housing Association
- Planning supervisor: Richard Amos
- Main contractor: James Swinton and Co
- Services engineer: RSP Consultant Engineers
- Structural engineer: David Narro Associates
- Civil engineer: David Narro Associates