BAYWOOD HOUSES
LOCATION: Greenville, SC
CLIENT: Nash Homes
AREA: 7,200 SF
STATUS: Complete
YEAR: 2023
PHOTOGRAPHY: Ryan Theede Photography
DESCRIPTION: These four houses along Baywood Ave are a modest infill development in Greenville’s Arcadia Hills neighborhood. The 0.38-acre site is minutes from the city center but remained underutilized for several years given the host of complex challenges inherent to the property. The parcel is oddly shaped and sandwiched between an institutional building and an interstate highway, making it an anomaly within the neighborhood. The first stages of the project involved close collaboration with city planners to strategically divide the lot into four properties with street frontage, setback lines, and other zoning parameters consistent with that of the context. An architectural position for the buildings was established with the primary objective being to create single-family detached houses articulated in a way that references a denser urban fabric. The houses were subsequently conceived, in both plan and form, as two-story townhomes. The first level of each building has been “pinched and pulled” to reduce the distance between the houses, fill out the individual parcels, and produce a more consistent street wall. At a programmatic level, this gesture also creates a recessed front porch, rear porch, and single car garage for each house. This ultimately leads to the visual affect, particularly when viewed at an angle, of a more urban building type. The result is incremental urbanism that is sensitive to the context, economically viable, and makes the most of an overlooked and leftover piece of the city. Each house is roughly 1,800 SF and features 3 bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms. The materials are among the most common and cost effective in the area but have been executed utilizing subtle detailing strategies that allow them to maintain their familiarity while also expressing the contemporary nature of the overall design. The interiors have several features that distinguish the project from comparable speculative developments including tile floors throughout the first level, large contemporary kitchens, and subtle curves that soften the overall look and feel.
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