Located in the city of Jeonju, about 200 kilometers south of Seoul, South Korea, Jonju Hanok Village is a neighborhood started in the 1910s that grew significantly in the 1930s as an area of affluence. A hanok–also known as a giwajib, or tile-roofed house–with a courtyard was significantly more expensive to build than the then […]
New Genesis Apartments is a 106-unit, mixed-income, mixed-use housing redevelopment project that includes local retailers, affordable artists’ lofts, and supportive housing services. The project is located between downtown Los Angeles’s burgeoning historic core and the city’s Skid Row neighborhood, a 50-block area that is home to more than 4,600 people who lack permanent stable housing.
Located in downtown Santa Monica, California, Ocean Avenue South is a mixed-use apartment and retail project consisting of residential units serving people with a variety of incomes. It consists of 160 affordable apartments, 158 luxury condominiums, and 20,000 square feet of retail space. The project, the result of extensive community planning and a public/private partnership, fronts the new 6.2-acre Tongva Park and was completed in 2014.
The Short North Arts District, which is centered on High Street, consists of 14 blocks north of downtown Columbus just south of the Ohio State University campus. Once home to neglected buildings, boarded-up windows, and few businesses—and visited frequently by the police—the area once known as the “Near Northside” became known as “Short North” after the Columbus police gave the area that moniker for being just short of the northern boundary of the downtown precinct. Short North underwent a makeover when local artists, historic preservationists, and small businesses began to transform the area into an arts district in the 1980s.
As programming and an organizational structure have come together, the Short North Arts District’s community health and social connectedness have greatly improved. Today, the Gallery Hop includes restaurants, galleries, and shops, and it attracts more than 25,000 attendees a year. More than 30,000 people participate in HighBall, an estimated 80,000 attend the Community Festival, about 500,000 spectators watch the Pride Parade, and the Doo Dah Parade has become locally renowned. Through the SID, Columbus’s tradition of illuminated arches was restored with the installation of 17 steel arches that create an identity for the district.
Serenbe is a 1,000-acre (405 ha) community that broke ground in 2004 in Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia, that currently includes 200 homes (single family, multifamily, and live/work units), commercial and arts space, and three restaurants, with eventual plans for a total of 1,200 residents. The development includes a number of food-based amenities, most notably a 25-acre (10 ha) professionally managed organic farm that forms the heart of the community. Serenbe also features an extensive nature trail system, conserves water through landscaping, and naturally treats wastewater for use in irrigation.
Mueller is a 700-acre redevelopment of a former airport into a health-focused master-planned community just three miles from downtown Austin, Texas. By 2020, Mueller is projected to have over 5,700 single family and multifamily units, a quarter of which will be affordable for low-income families. The Catellus Development Corporation worked with master planners ROMA Design and McCann Adams Studio to promote community health and wellness, to increase pedestrian activity, to improve air quality, and to utilize low-emission building materials.
Mueller’s various facilities and amenities are designed around the principles of social interaction, open space preservation, and active lifestyles. Tree-lined sidewalks and protected bicycle lanes provide shade and connect to a comprehensive trail system, retail, and recreational parks to encourage walking and bicycling. To promote physical fitness, Mueller provides sports facilities, playgrounds, a stretching area, and outdoor showers. A six-acre orchard and community garden provides residents with a seasonal harvest. Residents have initiated over 40 different clubs and interest groups and over 70,000 people attend large scale community events annually. The developer has facilitated social interaction these interactions through a block party at move-in and through physical design, including front porches, stoops, gardens, and alleyways in residential areas.
Providing a range of residential options–including high-end residences, social (affordable) housing, and housing for seniors–Meander is a 17,270-square-meter (185,894-square-foot) mixed-use development located in Amsterdam’s Stadsdeel Westerpark along a canal known as Kostverlorenvaart. The result of a public/private partnership, the 278-unit project also includes a restaurant, a gym, a public elementary school, and a public library. The site plan integrates the project’s many uses into one complex while paying homage to the site’s maritime location and its industrial past. The building’s layout curves inward along the canal, allowing more housing units to have views of the water, as well as the formation of two pedestrian streets on the canal side and a private courtyard facing the existing housing.
A warehouse on what used to be the Charleston Navy Yard in North Charleston, South Carolina, has been transformed into 10 Storehouse Row, a 38,000-square-foot (3,530-sq-m) mixed-use project. The structure is part of the Navy Yard at Noisette, a 340-acre (137.6-ha) adaptive use of the original Navy Yard, and is, in turn, part of the larger 3,000-acre (1,214-ha) Noisette community redevelopment project. Retaining many of the building’s original historic features, 10 Storehouse Row includes new, environmentally friendly additions such as two-button flush toilets, eco-friendly paints, and high-efficiency lighting controlled by timers and photocells. The project comprises artist studios, a restaurant, retail, and offices as well as space for the American College of the Building Arts.