Over a landscape with deep history of residential displacement, the design intent was to create not only housing units, but a community within for both its residents and surrounding neighbors. By integrating housing and communal areas within the existing landscape, the community interplays with the context of the site. Intermixing the urban and residential environments allows for the site to flow across the landscape and elevate the multi-uses for the community and its residents.
As the units continue upward, bedrooms and sizes of the spaces decrease, allowing for the push and pull of the facade to let natural light flush into front windows. With strict site constraints for high density housing, elements such as borrowed light, flexible layouts and hinged spaces are attributed to the units. There are three different unit types resulting from 400SF to 1200 SF.
Traditional multi-family residential housing is often found in dense, urban areas as stacked, linear housing. By disrupting the ground plane, the units begin to mimic the landscape and create walkways that ramp up and down along the front facades.