[CPEO-BIF] Affordable housing on South Bronx brownfields

["Hersh, Robert" <hersh@WPI.EDU>]

The Architect's Newspaper
Alan Brake
2/14/07

A brownfield in the South Bronx is about to be greened, thanks to a
sustainable housing competition conducted by the Department of Housing
Preservation and Development (HPD) and AIA New York. An architect-developer
team consisting of Grimshaw Architects, Dattner Architects, Phipps Houses,
and Jonathan Rose Companies won the competition with a proposal to design 202
units of housing along with commercial and open space on a long, narrow
60,000-acre site. The city is giving the property, a vacant lot and abandoned
rail right of way, to the development team for $1 to underwrite the project's
affordability requirement. 

Named Via Verde, or the Green Way, the project includes an 18-story tower,
midrise units, and townhouses, "threaded like a ribbon through the site,"
said Vincent Chang, senior architect at Grimshaw's New York office. More than
half of the housing, which is a mix of rentals and units for sale, will be
reserved for low-income residents, with the remaining portion set aside for
moderate and middle-income residents."We were keen to create a sense of
continuity across unit types," he said, though the facades of each building
volume will use varied materials in a prefabricated, extra-insulated cladding
system.

For the entire article, see:
http://www.archpaper.com/news/2007_0214.htm


Bob Hersh
CPEO
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