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Terraced Housing Design Whare Tū Tūāpapa

1. Introduction 2. Site Design 3. Placing the Building 4. Street to Front Door 5. Outdoor Spaces 6. Accommodating Cars 7. The Building
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Site ecology and habitats
  • 2.3 Design for topography
  • 2.4 Design the Site and Houses together
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Types of Terraced Housing
    • 3.2.1 Terraced Housing
    • 3.2.2 Semi-detached Housing
  • 3.3 Fronts and backs
  • 3.4 Building separation and outlook
  • 3.5 Respect the neighbours
  • 3.6 Designing for light and sun
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Relating building to street
  • 4.3 Boundary treatments
  • 4.4 Safety, activity and overlooking
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Private outdoor spaces
  • 5.3 Communal outdoor spaces
  • 5.4 Service areas
  • 5.5 Get the most out of your landscaping
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Quality streets and accessways
  • 6.3 Safe & attractive shared driveways or accessway
  • 6.4 Parking options
    • 6.4.1 Access from the front : on-site
    • 6.4.2 Access from the front: on-street
    • 6.4.3 Parking behind
    • 6.4.4 Grouped parking: surface
    • 6.4.5 Grouped parking : basement, podium and undercroft
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Building form and appearance
    • 7.2.1 Building height and massing
    • 7.2.2 Building depth
    • 7.2.3 Integrated building facades
    • 7.2.4 Primary building elements
    • 7.2.5 Ends, Rows and Courtyards
  • 7.3 Typical layouts
  • 7.4 Weather tightness
  • 7.5 Building performance
    • 7.5.1 Keeping heat in the house
    • 7.5.2 Ventilating the house
  • 7.6 Terraced housing space
    • 7.6.1 Living and dining spaces
    • 7.6.2 Kitchens
    • 7.6.3 Bedrooms
    • 7.6.4 Private outdoor space – decks and balconies
    • 7.6.5 Storage and utility space

Case Studies

  • 3333 Main, Vancouver
  • Beaumont Quarter
  • Buckley Terraces, Hobsonville
  • Duke Street Terrace Housing
  • Manukau Road
  • Redfern East, Sydney
  • Regent Park
  • River Walk, Vancouver
  • Talbot Park
  • The Altair
  • The Promenade, Takapuna

    3333 Main, Vancouver

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    Overview

    A successful  five storey mixed use residential development that created a new pocket park out of a traffic roundabout – located in a busy inner suburb of Vancouver.

    Project Summary

    Project Summary

    The building is located at the heart of a small retail area, and fronts a busy street and a new pocket park. Development on this site was facilitated by up-zoning along street corridors, and the economy of timber construction in multi-level apartment buildings.

    The ground floor of this long building faces the arterial road (Main Street) and is entirely retail. A central arcade running through the building at the ground floor connects to a rear lane. The entrance lobby to the apartments is accessed off this arcade. The development contains 91 single level units of 1, 2 and 3 bedrooms over four floors, with 7 townhouses facing a rear lane.

    The building is located at a point where Main Street swings to the east, leaving a wedge of space between the street and the building for half its length. This has been taken to turn this previous traffic island into a pocket park, that the south end of the building fronts. All apartments have large balconies, and residents have access to private landscaped areas on roof tops.

    Parking is provided in a basement garage via the back lane built as part of the development. Changes in the British Columbia building code enabled the use of timber framing (up to six floors) if provided with sprinklers for fire protection. In this building, the basement parking and the first floor retail areas use a concrete structure, upon which the four residential floors are constructed using timber framing.

    Many units include 'flexi space', effectively small rooms that can be used as storage, studies or for other uses.

    The project makes significant contributions to the public realm and the pedestrian environment, and achieves good environmental performance, reflected in the LEED Silver certification.​

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