A new project with a midcentury look came to life in central Phoenix as the American studio The Ranch Mine, concluded a residential project called Uptown Row.
Built on a formerly parking lot, Uptown Row consists of a pair of matching buildings, each containing five spacious townhouses.
The young local studio responsible for the project, The Ranch Mine said that it was designed to straddle the line “between a single-family home and a multi-family complex”. Collectively, the units occupy a total of 17,332 square feet (1,610 square meters).
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Designed to be pedestrian-friendly, Uptown Row sits between a commercial thoroughfare and a historic residential district. “It finds harmony in a diverse neighborhood, stitching together disparate elements in a refined, modern complex,” the team said.
Built just 500 feet (152 meters) away from a light rail station, the project meets the city ideas in transport planning. A light rail system as opened less than a year ago trying to change the city that “relies on the automobile, but is actively shifting towards public transportation”,
The development consists of two identical buildings that mimic the scale of nearby commercial structures. Each building contains five townhomes that are roughly the same size as the historic dwellings in the neighborhood.
“Each of these units are accessed via pedestrian walkways amid desert plantings and a spaced block wall that provides casual opportunities for socializing with neighbors,” the studio said.
Once more, looking to the city and people’s new demands, in two of the units, the architects incorporated ground-floor office space with separate entrances, this way they can accommodate a home-based business, a kind of business increasing in the area.
For the exterior cladding the team used three primary materials: Pre-rusted steel as a reference to the industrial character of nearby properties; Brick veneer is a nod to a 90-year-old adobe house located along the same street; Light-colored stucco, a popular material in Phoenix that adds visual contrast.
Inside, the three-floor residential units offer 10-foot-high (three-meter), ceilings, and large sliding glass doors that open onto private courtyards encircled by white concrete block walls.
On the first floor the team placed the living spaces, bedrooms on the second level and a flexible space on the top floor. “This flex space features a wet bar and opens out onto a roof deck with a built-in grill, creating an ideal indoor-outdoor entertaining space that takes in amazing views of the city, mountains, and desert sky beyond,” the firm said.
The placement of windows was also a concern in this project as the architects wanted it to have constant “eyes on the street”.
Uptown Row is a project that it’s similar in spirit to Blackbirds by Bestor Architecture, a “stealth density” development in Los Angeles that features a cluster of small-lot houses.
SOURCE: Dezeen
Photography by: Jason Roehner
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