Union West
Featured Project
Multi-Family Residential
267 for-rent apartments
Fitness center and yoga studio, pool, work-at-home library, clubhouse
475,000 GSF
Van Gordon St, Lakewood, CO
Completed in 2016
Scope
Architecture
Relationships
Client: Confluence Companies
Civil Engineer: 2N Civil
Structural Engineer: KL&A
MEP Engineer: GLH Engineers
Landscape Architect: Outside LA
Interior Designer: Studio R Design
General Contractor: Confluence Builders
Design Challenge
Provide luxury apartments in an area with a scarcity of new housing product, while dealing with challenging site characteristics, including substantial slope and public trail accommodations.
Accomplishments & Design Solution
With great views of the Denver skyline, and the benefit of a site naturally sloping to the east, the building steps with grade, scaling down the mass and allowing views from an ample number of residences. Fully screening a pre-cast parking structure containing 450 parking spaces, the building wraps the perimeter of the site, fronting Van Gordon Street, and creating intimate courtyards internal to the site, where residents may retreat away from the activity of the surrounding context. The activity of the amenity wing draws the visitor up the hill, appropriately greeting them upon arrival. Hipped roofs, with deep eave overhangs, soften the roof line and allow the building to sit appropriately within its front range context.
