Builder - December 2008 - (Page 66) TUCKED IN: Bay Area beauty Blue Star Corner fits 20 townhome units, 26 parking spaces, six bicycle spaces, and three tranquil courtyards onto .7 acre. BY JENNY SULLIVAN MANIFEST DENSITY Check out four projects that share walls, look great, and may portend housing’s future. Courtesy David Baker + Partners S 66 ■ ettlers in America connected the dots from the Atlantic to the Pacific long ago, but today’s builders are grappling with frontiers of a different nature. In the landscape of the current recession, the issues of the day all seem to involve questions about density, whether the challenge is to eke a small profit out of a leftover scrap of land, to make homes more affordable for creditcrunched buyers, or to ease the energy crisis by aggregating more people around shared infrastructure, jobs, and transit. As our world becomes more populous, higherdensity housing is, frankly, inevitable. Builder looks at four small, attached projects that have addressed density head-on and done it delightfully well. B U I LD E R d e c e m ber 2 0 08 de 2008 8 W W W.BUILDERONLINE.COM http://WWW.BUILDERONLINE.COM
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