The Belfield Townhomes is a unique experiment for our development/design/build company. This project represents the future of high quality “subsidized,” “social,” and “affordable” housing and for the development of high-performance, net-zero-energy-capable urban building in Philadelphia and the rest of the country. We were approached by the Philadelphia Office of Housing and Community Development (OHCD) to determine if we could salvage a project they had been working on with a local Non-Profit CDC, for an affordable housing development in the Logan section of the city. After reviewing the project we determined that we could not only design and build these homes for the specified budget, but that the homes would be the first Passive House Certified and Net-Zero-Energy-Capable homes, thus dispelling the notion that high-quality and high-performance building was necessarily expensive to build. The project consists of three “row” style, 1,920-square-foot, three-story, 4-5 bedroom townhomes. The homes are required to be occupied by currently or formerly homeless families. We designed these homes in the tradition of the Philadelphia “row” house, simply and efficiently organized, with a handicap-accessible ground floor living, kitchen, bathroom, and bedroom. The second and third floors have three more bedrooms, two bathrooms, and one office. The buildings are ...
The Belfield Townhomes is a unique experiment for our development/design/build company. This project represents the future of high quality “subsidized,” “social,” and “affordable” housing and for the development of high-performance, net-zero-energy-capable urban building in Philadelphia and the rest of the country. We were approached by the Philadelphia Office of Housing and Community Development (OHCD) to determine if we could salvage a project they had been working on with a local Non-Profit CDC, for an affordable housing development in the Logan section of the city. After reviewing the project we determined that we could not only design and build these homes for the specified budget, but that the homes would be the first Passive House Certified and Net-Zero-Energy-Capable homes, thus dispelling the notion that high-quality and high-performance building was necessarily expensive to build. The project consists of three “row” style, 1,920-square-foot, three-story, 4-5 bedroom townhomes. The homes are required to be occupied by currently or formerly homeless families. We designed these homes in the tradition of the Philadelphia “row” house, simply and efficiently organized, with a handicap-accessible ground floor living, kitchen, bathroom, and bedroom. The second and third floors have three more bedrooms, two bathrooms, and one office. The buildings are ...