2022 Spring Issue - 104

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realms, framed by a four-story
glass bridge providing urban views
from the elevator lobbies above.
The clubhouse has floor-to-ceiling
glass that extends its full 150-foot
(46 m) length as a kind of covered
porch facing the urban park. The
opposite wall of the 65-foot-wide
(20 m) clubhouse, which faces the
inner courtyard commons, is also
sheathed with floor-to-ceiling glass,
with a large portion that slides
open to enable parties and other
events to flow into and out of the
courtyard.
A 40-by-70-foot (12 by 21 m)
fitness, health, and wellness center
wing juts into the inner courtyard
with four stories of housing above
it. To prevent the mass of this
peninsula from shrinking the perceived
size of the courtyard, three
sides of the fitness center are also
sheathed with floor-to-ceiling glass.
A sunken fountain and reflecting
pool on three of its sides highlight
the activity and space inside the
The south wall of the clubhouse,
which faces the inner courtyard
commons, is sheathed with floorto-ceiling
glass, with a large
portion that slides open to enable
parties and other events to flow
into and out of the courtyard.
fitness center. The placement
of the facility and a diagonal
boardwalk focuses the eye along
a continual 230-foot-long (70 m)
axis from the edge of the northern
entrance southeast to the southern
edge of the inner courtyard.
Articulate Garden Rooms
The landscape team at Design
Collective uses a variety of level
changes to introduce what it calls
garden rooms within the inner
courtyard.
A raised wooden seating platform
with umbrella tables projects
over a large fountain pool with
water continually flowing over
the rounded edges of its granite
enclosure. A raised cantilevered
firepit wall defines different seating
areas, many flanked by long outdoor
sofas. Raised concrete planter
beds help define other seating
areas. Rainwater from high roofs
passes through a series of custom
manifolds that dissipate water
The combined effect of these various strategies is to create
outdoor living rooms flexible enough to accommodate
many groups at different times under diverse weather
conditions.
energy and distribute water into
these planters. Multiple steel postand-beam
trellises with wooden
slats articulate separate gathering
places and barbecue areas.
The combined effect of these
various strategies is to create outdoor
living rooms flexible enough
to accommodate many groups at
different times and under diverse
weather conditions.
Minimize Construction
Costs . . .
The first two parcels had been built
as concrete towers to achieve the
highest rents. Goodwin notes that
wood-framed construction could
result in about a 40 percent cost
reduction. The building codes allow
a maximum of five stories of wood
construction above a concrete
podium that could cover a maximum
of three stories, as long as
the distance from the lowest point
of fire department access to the
highest occupiable floor level is
less than 75 feet (23 ha).
On this sloping 2.5-acre (1 ha)
site, Design Collective's plan yields
294 units, which equates to 118
units per acre (264 per ha). While
the two towers' density on individual
sites is over 200 units per
acre (494 per ha), when the Harris
Teeter grocery and parking are
included, as well as the urban park
entry sites, density drops to only
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URBAN LAND
SPRING 2022
DESIGN COLLECTIVE INC.
2022 Spring Issue

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