Multifamily Design Innovations: Thoughtful Design
Sponsored by TAMLYN
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss strategies for enlivening the facades of buildings with relatively standard, boxlike footprints and massing.
- Explain how environments for individuals with intellectual disabilities can be optimized through thoughtful design.
- Describe a number of green strategies that have been cost-effectively utilized in multifamily housing projects.
- Discuss how creative design can help mission-driven organizations take advantage of their real estate to better serve multiple constituents.
Credits:
1 AIA LU/Elective
This test is no longer available for credit
Model Home: In response to a growing need, Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects and a Bay Area nonprofit developed a residential community for adults with autism.
Social Network: A trio of young architects enlivens a housing block for seniors by cleverly manipulating its facades and creating a series of community spaces.
Mission Statement: A Lutheran congregation in a rapidly developing part of the city revamps its campus to include affordable housing and an inviting corner chapel.
Affordable's New Look: With Via Verde'a mixed-use complex in a rapidly changing Bronx neighborhood'Dattner and Grimshaw reimagine city dwelling.
Situated on a 4.5-acre plot, the 85,000-square-foot 57-unit affordable housing complex was commissioned by the Coachella Valley Housing Coalition, a nonprofit, low-income housing developer in southern California.
A six-story, 78,000-square-foot affordable housing complex for low-income and formerly homeless residents in Brownsville, Brooklyn.
Out of the Box: The Modules, a student housing development by Interface Studio Architects, flaunts its construction method as it makes a case for well-designed prefab.
Housing Fit for 007: Architect-developer Jonathan Segal named his 29-unit apartment building 'The Q,' after James Bond's resident gadgeteer. The tricks used here, though, are subtler than a shoe dagger.
Program: A 44,330-square-foot 32-unit townhouse and apartment complex in downtown San Francisco designed for middle-income and first-time homebuyers.
Originally published in March 2017
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