13-unit development, Lexington, MA
Design Challenge:
Working closely with a landscape architect, take a team approach to master plan a residential community.
Assist project through the special permit approval process with the local planning board and conservation commission.
Solution:
The design solution has achieved harmony with all the challenges the site could provide: severe topography, extensive wetlands, and a transitional lot between a single-family neighborhood to the north and commercial/institutional uses to the south.
The development of two villages, one upper and one lower, has allowed us to vary the scale and density of the project while providing a solution that is in tune with this mixed streetscape.
The placement of the units will leave about two-thirds of the existing vegetation of mature woodland and will afford great views and private open space