KLINE LOT designing a mixed-use, walkable environment Located on the southwest corner of the downtown district in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the Kline Lot lies between a low-density residential neighborhood to the southwest and a mixed-used Main Street and downtown to the northeast. Working with Kyle Hoff, we sought to mediate this urban situation through a 217 unit, mixed-use, perimeter block, housing complex. The perimeter block housing on the first four-stories contains street-front retail in order to promote a healthy, walkable environment and also allows for a series of inner courtyards that not only add green space but cross ventilation, day-lighting, and views for tenants. In addition to this we divided the site in the center with a public plaza in order to create an easy-access route to Ashley Street to the west. Above the perimeter block housing, two doubleloaded corridor towers also reside on the site but are raised on a series of stilts. We employed this strategy in order to create a subtle scale gradient between the low-rise, low-density residential neighborhood to the southwest and the dense downtown to the northeast.
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Right: Rendering of the final housing design. Created using Rhino, VRay, and Photoshop.