While not truly a live-work project, the Center uses their learning facilities and public spaces to keep the residents in close communication with the street. These same spaces manage to maintain a residential feel through their design and use of materials. This is one of the few projects that integrates landscape and architecture, and connects the college master plan with a significant existing open space. It does this by creating a new circular outdoor space, on which it presents the entry facades of three different colleges. Both the strong new exterior urban open space and garden spaces are close at hand in part of each building's experience in both the inside and outside.
Interior spaces have their own unique forms, as well as sharing in views to nature close at hand.
This is a modest project with enormous ambition. The program included the addition of ticket booth and at the opposite end public restrooms a total of 450 square feet. The use of the new roof canopy structure gives lightness, delicacy and a touch of whimsy to the fortress-like quality of the existing structure. And once again, attention to craft, to detail, to the surprising juxtaposition of dissimilar materials gives this building enduring quality and character. View larger photo Mixed use affordable housing project with a range of living unit types.