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.

Landscape Architect: Roger Kallstrom

Rendering: Architects 2

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