In collaboration with Jahkiya Jack, inspired by the 'Tejon 35 Case Study'.
This project is located at 3211 Cedar St. in Philadelphia near the Port-Richmond neighborhood.
To begin this project, we sought out site zoning research. Collectively, they determined demographics to help narrow down the program of this design development. It was concluded that this lot was in a primarily residential area, where the average household size was three and daycare availability was scarce. This would become the commercial component of the program.
Zoning information was gathered and used to identify the constraints on the site. It was evident that side and rear yard setbacks would affect how the project would interact with the street and neighboring structures. Having defined Cedar as a ‘public’ street, Chatham Street was defined as more ‘private’ relatively speaking. Cedar Street did not have a yard setback according to zoning codes, so this facade had more interaction with the street/pedestrian traffic that circulated along Cedar and also reinforced the logic as to why it was defined as the ‘public’ side of our design. The program would be organized on the site based on how ‘public’ or ‘private’ we perceived it to be.
As a mixed-use residential/commercial complex, our commercial component was arranged along Cedar Street to reflect our definition of ‘public' and the more private residences were organized along Chatham to continue the ‘rowhome’ repetition that was seen along the street beyond the site. From there building and program aided in shaping the building
Our residential programs offered a variety of housing unit styles. For our unit breakdown, view the diagrams below. Our 'Apartment style' units offer studio, 1BR, 2BR, 3BR and 3BR duplexes / Townhomes.
As part of the curriculum, we learned about construction details and importance of fire rating floor/roof/wall assemblies. For this project, we researched a series of assemblies and created ones that best suit our budling's needs.
Cedar St. Section
Interior courtyard perspective
