街区派对丨West of West

Firm： West of West

Type： Residential › Apartment Multi Unit Housing

STATUS： Concept

SIZE： 10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft

BUDGET： Unknown

Block Party is a strategy for increasing the density and flexibility of low-rise communities through the combination of residential units, outdoor community gathering spaces, and neighborhood commerce. We believe that a mix of these three things used in tandem with community land trusts can provide new opportunities for neighborhoods across the country.

Block Party expands the potential of traditional townhouses by exposing the shared party walls between units and leveraging that outdoor space for communal use.

The project includes eight homes of various sizes and spaces at the ground floor for community use, for a total of nine thousand square feet. They are organized in clusters around shared open spaces and shaded breezeways, with private yards for each unit on the rooftops. Each of the eight has its own attitude, playfully turning away and towards the others, resulting in a project that increases density but that does not look dense.