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David Baker Architects

on June 07, 2019

David Baker Architects is an architecture firm located in San Francisco and Oakland with a large affordable housing portfolio. Link to their featured Affordable projects.

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Dortheavej Residence

The Dortheavej Residence is an affordable housing development in Copenhagen, design by Bjarke Ingels Group , composed of prefabricated modules stacked on top of one another. Excerpts from Arch Daily : BIG designed the five-storey building for Danish non-profit housing association Lejerbo, a company whose vision was developed by urban designer Jan Gehl. It creates 66 new homes for low-income residents ranging between 60 to 115 square metres in area. Each one has 3.5-metre-high ceilings, full-height windows and south-facing balconies. The building takes the form of a "winding wall", designed by the architects to resemble a chequerboard. The southern side of the apartments are fronted with floor-to-ceiling glazing and alternating balconies, while the northern facade is designed to look like a pattern of solid and void. The curve of the building creates a natural entrance plaza facing the street. At its base, a trio of large openings – each the size of one prefab modu

Snabba Hus Västberga

Snabba Hus Västberga is a cluster of affordable apartment blocks in Stockholm, Sweden, designed by Martin-Löf Arkitekter . The project features facades with alternating opaque and transparent sections and utilizes offsite prefabrication and standardized materials to reduce the cost of constructing apartments for young people on waiting lists for permanent rental contracts. Excerpts from Dezeen : "The apartment buildings achieve sophistication at a low cost through the careful use and adaptation of standardised materials and methods," said the architects. "The project offers a timely solution for the growing housing shortage in Stockholm." The first application of this process was an apartment complex completed in 2014 in Knivsta in the north of Stockholm, where prefabricated-concrete structural elements support apartment units that are assembled offsite. In Västberga, a neighbourhood to the southwest of central Stockholm, the studio arranged six buildi

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