The "middle" affords varying possibilities of form and new models of housing to provide affordability while addressing suburban challenges of mobility and social connection. This proposal reconfigures 2 lots into a 17 unit collective community to support multi-generational dwellings with roughly 40 adults and 25-30 children in a suburban mixed-use mews.
Robust community life is vital and enhanced by spaces designed to foster social exchange, chance encounter, and resource sharing. Projects like this hinge on unit requirement relaxations in exchange for greater shared space as well as on reclaiming underutilized front and side yards.
A crowdsourced or participatory landscape design promotes community engagement. Semi-private niches feed into a green garden forming the spine of the community. A cozy firepit, vegetable garden, long table dinners, are all imaged here. A shared kitchen anchors the garden and is supplemented by corner retail serving the neighborhood.
Reducing the land cost factor by converting 2 single family homes to 17 units, resources can be allocated to service value-added design, community amenity, and support affordable housing solutions for private and public development models.
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