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HOUSING DESIGN RESOURCES
Affordable Housing Design Advisor
Clear,illustrated design considerations & the Affordable Green Academy which has many lecture and interview video lessons, requires a login. Oriented towards making single-family homes sustainable.
The Macro View on Micro Units
Excellent summary of market and design considerations on tiny apartments by an Urban Land Institute research awardees. Pages 25-36 illustrate innovative architectural features of recent projects with best practices identified. Provides useful information about the recent housing market in terms of unit size and rental income. Recommends creating flexible micro-units that can be combined into more traditional dwelling units. Executive summary, plans and perspectives make an easy read.
Isabelle Biro’s Housing 139-141 Rue Castagny
Exterior corridors with red finishes provide views of street and green back alley while providing visual accents to a patterned white facade. Units have access to light and air in two orientations, sliding doors allow flexible privacy vs. connection. Function-driven design reveals skillful manipulation of form and space.
MILWAUKIE
Trimet’s MAX light-rail Portland-Milwaukie Line planning
Includes video overview and station plan, renderings and descriptions: see Milwaukie/Main St. Station.
Park-and-Ride garages are planned for the stations before and after (SE Tacoma St/Johnson Creek & SE Park Ave)
Milwaukie’s North Main Village by Myhre Group, 52 units/acre
Six multi-family affordable + market rate structures, two to four stories in height