Permits have been approved for a new ten-story affordable senior housing development at 105 West Tremont Avenue in Morris Heights, The Bronx. Designed by SB+C Architecture and developed by Crown Holdings in partnership with The Community Builders, the project will deliver 95 affordable homes for older adults and support aging in place with on-site services. Crown Architecture & Consulting is the architect of record for the Passive House-engineered development, which will prioritize energy efficiency, indoor comfort, and reduced carbon emissions with solar array on the rooftop and a fully-electric system.
105 West Tremont Avenue via Crown Architecture
105 West Tremont Avenue via Crown Architecture
Amenities include elevators, shared laundry room, bicycle storage, community and recreation rooms, outdoor recreation spaces, package room, lobby with 24-hour reception, and resident exam/consultation rooms, and a resident services office. Accessiblity features include handrails, color-defined wayfinding, and bright lighting.
Renderings show clean geometric forms with a façade of porcelain and metal materials. Most notably, a large-scale mural will span the eastern elevation.
It is unclear when 105 West Tremont Avenue will be completed.
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This replaces three c. 1900 wooden holdout houses. Fifty years ago, seemingly most of the apartment buildings in this area were abandoned. Many were rehabilitated under Koch.
why so grey and bland? doesn’t have to match seniors’ hair color
The design is good enough, but it’s even better the building is designed to look like two smaller buildings.