Jigsaw Terrace

Jigsaw Terrace is about female empowerment; run by women, for women. The project’s co-housing units provide much needed accommodation for women who have suffered from domestic abuse and their children. These residential units work alongside an integrated Her Centre and carpentry workshops run by Women on the Tools, each providing advice and support as well as work and retraining opportunities respectively. The iconic planted terraces create comfortable, sunlit spaces to enjoy, whilst maintaining the necessary privacy, a motif that runs throughout the building.

Social housing for female victims of domestic abuse and their children.

1:20 interior model showing the Her Centre communal kitchen: a sunlit and warm space

Structural strategy: CLT construction with glulam portal frames in the double height spaces.

Street elevation: timber materiality expressed with vertical larch cladding which varies in width between the carpentry workshops and the upper floors