Townhouses
2014-2017
769 NW 1 Street, City of Miami, Florida
These townhouses are located in the heart of Little Havana in the City of Miami. Designed to be true infill housing, these townhouses are conceived as a prototype for the city. As compact urban buildings, these structures can be built incrementally over time on small or large lots. The urban townhouse is an alternative to the suburb house and the high-rise, one that provides an urban fabric that engages the street and supports richness of city life. Each proposed townhouse is three stories tall and 4,500 square feet in size with (2) two-bedroom and (2) efficiency units. The front and back facades are open and the sides are party walls. At 25’-0” wide, these townhouses can be repeated to fit the typical Miami building lot. The building structure is composed of reinforced concrete block masonry with cast-in-place concrete slabs. As this project is an urban proposal, the development of façade was the focus of our design energies. The façade is composed of three bays, which are grouped and shifted to create a monumental asymmetrical frame to the city. This frame is conceived as a green wall, a vertical garden for the street and an outdoor room for the residents.
Awards
First Round, Vision Awards Selection, Urban Land Institute (ULI) SE Florida/Caribbean, 2018
Presentation
Transportation & Ecology Earth Day Symposium, CNU of the Palm Beachs, April 18, 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7tCbM6e4_s
Publications
Archello feature of Infill Housing, 2020
https://archello.com/project/infill-housing
“Small-scale urban developments starting to sprout. Thank a change in the parking code” By Rebecca San Juan, Miami Herald, January 8, 2020
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/real-estate-news/article238937913.html
“Creating infill developments true to their urban context”, by Jeffrey Steele, forbes.com, November 26, 2019
“How Incremental Development Came to Miami” by Andrew Frey, strongtowns.org, November 25, 2019
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/11/25/small-and-incremental-development
“Stay Alfred Little Havana by Tecela’, architectmagazine.com, October 14, 2019
https://www.architectmagazine.com/project-gallery/stay-alfred-little-havana-by-tecela
“Townhouses to rise in Little Havana but where is the parking?” by Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, June 24, 2016
“Build and Let Live,” by Alastair Gordon, The Miami Herald, July 12, 2015
Project Team
Jason R. Chandler, A.I.A., Hermann Gonzalez
Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing Engineering: Franyie Engineering Inc.
Structural Engineering: De Los Reyes Engineering Inc.
Civil Engineering: Zamora and Associates, Inc.
Photography
Michael Stavaridis