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Denny Regrade District Infill Housing Market Rate Housing Over Retail SUMMARY: WInner of an Honorable Mention, this competition entry explores ideas about creating a dense urban project that has a connection to Nature and a sense of individuality for each unit. The units are organized around a central open courtyard/plaza that brings lights and air to all four levels of housing. Retail and parking occupy the ground floor. This urban infill competition project was an opportunity to experiment with high-density low-rise housing.
We believe that any new urban building should not only be artistic and successfully meet its program; it must also mend the tears in a city’s architectural fabric caused by hasty, unplanned growth.
This design creates an appropriate pattern and image to meld the images of the city together rather than assert an entirely new image or reassert a single old one. Masonry, metal, and wood forms and recesses organize into a hierarchy of geometries reflecting the program, neighborhood materials, and indigenous Pacific Northwest symbols.
Nineteen apartment units encircle a planted commons shared by all residents. This configuration protects residents’ private spaces from the surrounding busy city, but lets light and air into each unit and enhances the feeling of community among the residents. The units’ living spaces face out to the City.
At-grade parking services both the apartments and the ground-floor retail space. Above this, each floor is incrementally more void and less built area to increase each resident’s access to light and air. Project Data: Awards and Publications: Honorable Mention Award, City of Seattle Redevelopment Agency Project Team |
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