The fundamental strategy: To push a no-elevator walk-up concept, (2 story + mezzanine), to its maximum reasonable density around a sun-inviting garden courtyard which is permeable to the neighborhood, pursuing both affordability and sociability. The conditions necessary to affordable density, (small units, car-sharing, literal physical intimacy, zoning/setback modifications), can all contribute - along with the choreography of landscape - to a fine-grained material street rhythm and a seductively walkable neighborhood. With caring orchestration, low-rise density has its own natural aesthetic and pedestrian vitality. The typology is particularly suited to the working young, singles, and the elderly, where courtyard noise generation would find a natural daily discipline/limit. Additionally, units are planned to set sleeping areas up/back from the courtyard. Roof profiling/massing is developed in the master plan to maximize sun entry into the courtyards. A walk through the neighborhood will fuse the experience of urbanity with a continuous linear park.
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