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awards | publications |  pdf brochure
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 David Baker's sketch lays out the salient points of the design.
 Graduation celebration. Image: Anne Hamersky
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This affordable rental housing complex is conceived as a new urban district. It is organized around a main street, Paseo Senter, which runs from the facing arterial roadway to the 13-acre Coyote Creek Park green space. Though this paseo will allow access by cars, it is designed to calm traffic and empower pedestrian use.
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 Our letter from the HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan for the 2010 AIA/HUD Secretary’s Award in the category for Excellence in Affordable Housing Design.
"A delightful project showing an exuberance of life and culture. Its admirable translation of the plaza and paseo prototypes contribute a human scale and sense of place. This is housing that makes a community, where one was sorely needed." —AIA/HUD Secretary's Award jury
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 Image: Anne Hamersky
 Bianey Martinez, property manager and resident. Image: Anne Hamersky.
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Lined at ground level with active uses, the paseo bustles with the activity of entry stoops, a community room, a library, leasing offices, social worker support spaces, a child-care center, American Indian Educational Program center and a grandparent caregiver center. Three stories of residential apartments are located above in a classic urban-mixed use style.
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 A profile view of the community room's woven screen. Image: Jeffrey Peters/Vantage Point Photography.
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Near the mid-point of the paseo lies a public plaza which surrounds the main entries into the residential districts. This communal open space combines gardens and a palm grove with an active play area, gathering spaces, and a swimming pool.
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 Circle time! Image: Anne Hamersky.
 Image: Anne Hamersky.
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 Aerial view.
 Ground level site plan.
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 Paseo Senter postcard front.
 The Paseo Senter postcard back.
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| project data |
Paseo Senter at Coyote Creek
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20218 |
| San Jose, California |
Completed June 2008
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| number of units |
| 1 bedroom |
46 |
| 2 bedroom |
105 |
| 3 bedroom |
67 |
| total |
218 |
| density ratios |
| project sf |
437,144 |
| site sf |
207,781 |
| acres |
4.77 |
| total bedrooms |
457 |
| bedrooms/acre |
63 |
| units/acre |
46 |
| parking |
| total |
414 |
| spaces/unit |
1.9 |
| type |
embedded |
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