The Drum is a 32ha multi-phase mixed use development on the edge of Bo’Ness, west of Edinburgh.  For Phase 3, a collaboration between developer, architect and landscape architect proposed a detached housing development promoting a layout of spatially integrated buildings, gardens and spaces which endorsed the modernist tradition of clarity of division between public and private space and the creation of sheltered, sunny, enclosed gardens.  Establishing a ‘tartan’ grid of 28 houses across the site, aligned on a strong east-west axis, each house and garden was orientated to the south or west.  The simple and logical layout of buildings, streets, spaces and pedestrian routes reinforced the grid and allowed the creation of efficiently organised and shaped house plots.  Galvanised steel and glazed bricks create an urban character to the contemporary village green.  Winner of a Bronze Award, The Roses Design Awards, an Edinburgh Architectural Association Silver Award, 2004 and a Saltire Society Housing Award 2005.