Multiple Housing

	Multi-Family/ Affordable Housing
	WINSLOW ARCHITECTS specializes in the design of both market rate and affordable multifamily housing. Much of its work has involved designs for projects being developed under Massachusetts “Comprehensive Permit” Legislation (Chapter 40B), calling for a mixture of market rate and affordable housing within each development without a significant difference in appearance. Being familiar with both markets enables it to combine cost consciousness with more custom upper end expectations in creating housing that is both affordable and acceptable to the regular market forces.

		Beacon Woods
		"Design 26 townhouses for the over 55 age group that provides master bedrooms on the first floor and attached 2 car garages, all within a very tight available building footprint." WINSLOW ARCHITECTS designed one story townhouses with bedrooms in the "roofline", creating interesting dormers and other features signifying single family rather than apartment living. The site is immediately adjacent to Rte. 95/Rte. 128 north of Boston and required skilled site planninng and detailing to minimize the highway impact.

		Leland Farms
		"Design 15 units of affordable housing on a parcel of land in the middle of a small suburban/rural village that is consistent with the surrounding area." WINSLOW ARCHITECTS has been perfecting the technique of “disguising density” as a way of creating the higher densities that affordable housing needs to be feasible. It has achieved this by designing contextually and using the local single family housing types to contain more than one household. The most notable example of this technique is Leland Farms, a 17 unit mixed-income housing development in a suburban/rural community. To achieve the required density, “farmsteads” were designed to look like a large single family house which, in fact, included 4 units in the “Main House”, 3 units in the “Barn” and 1 unit in the “Shed”.


		Auburndale Yard
		"Design a 10 unit of affordable housing condominium on a 1.5 acre parcel in the midst of an established single family residential neighborhood." WINSLOW ARCHITECTS designed closely-spaced single family houses and duplexes rather than more conventional townhouses to achieve this density while retaining the single family character.


		Sea Meadow Village
		"Design a 54 unit affordable housing condominium on 6 acres -the first of its kind on Cape Cod."