March 28 2013

BDP architect Ian McMillan and his wife Thea McMillan of chambersmcmillan, have completed a wheelchair friendly family home for themselves and their eight year old daughter.

Situated in Portobello, Edinburgh, the home is defined by its spacious entrance ramp which allows easy access to an upper level, enabling the family to live together in a building which serves all their needs.

Budgeted at £250k the custom built home was spurred by a desire to minimise the amount of dead space associated with a clumsy ‘bolted on’ ramp by placing the requirement at the heart of the design process.

Writing on her blog McMillan commented on life within his new home by saying: “Since moving in, we have had so many comments from friends and visitors that the ramp makes the house: on the one hand that they are not aware of it being an obviously ‘accessible’ house, but on the other hand how wonderful it is to have a ramp in a house (and could they have one too?).

“I think it is because the ramp makes you move around the house differently, and also because of the way that we have designed spaces off the ramp, these spaces connect, both visually and physically, differently.”

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