4×2 Townhouses, Freeman Crescent, Armidale NSW

Introduction

What was once the Ben Venue Primary School is now a housing development with a mixed range of community and private housing. As part of the private housing component, a two-storey classroom block has been converted to four luxury townhouses. The challenge for New England Design Group was to do this in such a way that each townhouse received an adequate amount of solar access in a building constructed on a north-south axis. By the judicious use of existing terraces on both levels and building extensions to the north-west, each townhouse unit now receives a generous amount of winter sun into living spaces.