This housing development, which occupies an entire street block, comprises two three-storey linear tracts with a protected landscaped zone between them. The strips are divided by straight-flight staircases that extend over the full width of the blocks. Each staircase provides access from the courtyard side to two dwellings on each floor. The dwellings themselves have an east-west orientation. All external walls and party cross-walls are load-bearing and were prefabricated in storey-height units. The facade elements, extending over the full width of a dwelling, are connected by laminated timber beams and fixed to the floors. The roofs and staircases are also in a prefabricated unit construction system.