The 5th Street Community Housing project combines two forward thinking concepts developed by the Ecological Design Studio™ (EDS), a research and development division of Todd Jersey Architecture. EDS is applying its proprietary primary design concept High Density Ecological Village™, or H-Dev™, to the 5th street project as well as a secondary EDS design concept, Live+Work™.
High Density Ecological Village provides residents with housing and lifestyle choices that create both economic and ecological sustainability. The concept supports community self-organization and -reliance by providing residents communally owned amenities within the housing project. The residents share these amenities and in doing so save time and money while building communal bonds. Communal amenities include child care, cooking and dining facilities, roof top greenhouses for food growing, and a community run art and music studio. The 5th street project and all H-Devs also emphasize community transportation strategies. All H-Devs are located along public transportation corridors and close to bike paths and offer residents access to a fleet of community owned alternative energy vehicles at half the cost of private vehicle ownership.
Live+Work provides separate living spaces and work studios within the same complex, offering the desired distance between the living spaces and the work spaces, while still creating a true village where people can live, work and provide for each other in one purposefully and harmoniously connected place. Our 5th Street project includes eight artist studios that residents can rent in addition to their residential units.
More personal time, better conservation of financial resources, happier social bonds and a sense of self reliance and personal empowerment will make the 5th Street Artisan Community Housing project the place to be for Bay Area creative people, including artisans, artists and musicians and those with a creative and forward-thinking spirit.
The 5th Street project is a joint project of Todd Jersey Architecture and Mission Housing Corporation.
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