2022 Spring Issue - 100

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WILLIAM P. MACHT
Courtyard Commons Creates Community
A Washington, D.C.-area
developer builds a highamenity,
low-rise courtyard
project to knit together a
more urban transit-oriented
housing community.
In the suburbs-which lack the
finer-grained, gridded block pattern
of their urban counterparts to
help stitch buildings into an urban
fabric-developers must marshal
all their resources to help define
a sense of place for their projects.
In its work for client Bethesda,
Maryland-based developer LCOR,
Baltimore-based architecture
firm Design Collective formulated
urban design strategies for the
multiple-building residential development
North Bethesda Center
that illustrate a disciplinary, multipronged
approach.
North Bethesda Center is the
result of efforts by the Washington
Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
(WMATA) to increase density on
sites it had acquired and retained
along its Metro rail system's Red
Line, which runs about 15 miles
(24 km) northeast from the Capitol.
On land owned by WMATA, LCOR
had previously ground-leased
and developed two concrete
high-rise residential towers. Wentworth
House is a 17-story tower
with 312 housing units above a
63,000-square-foot (5,900 sq m)
Harris Teeter full-line grocery, a
Walgreens pharmacy, and a Starbucks
coffee shop. Just east of
Wentworth, LCOR built the 341-unit,
18-story Aurora tower.
There remained a 2.5-acre (1
ha) Parcel G, later to be called
Arrowwood, immediately east of
The 50-foot-wide (15 m) entrance
plaza splays outward, anchored by a
three-level public stoop functioning
as an amphitheater for community
engagement, with seating and steps
leading to a recessed passageway to
the inner courtyard.
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DESIGN COLLECTIVE INC

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