PROJECT
CASA ONE

CLIENT
Abode Services

LOCATION
Santa Clara, California

USER
Homeless and very-low income residents

BUILDING AREA
77,560 SF

NUMBER OF UNITS
104 units

DU/ACRE
111du/ac

PARKING
51 spaces

SITE AREA
0.94 Acres

SITE FACTS
Site is located on the historic The Alameda at the border of Santa Clara and San Jose

AMENITIES
Numerous outdoor gathering areas to supplement the small unit sizes

CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS
Steel shipping containers, stained CMU, prefinished metal panel, corten steel, composite wood, steel, concrete, glass

DESIGN FACTS
Buildings designed with metal shipping containers. Project site designed in two phases to allow existing residents to remain residing in the existing building located on the phase 2 area while phase 1 is constructed

STORY TO TELL
This project is very unique to use metal shipping containers to construct housing for the homeless –shipping containers are structurally very stout for seismic design and allow for speed of construction since the containers are modified off site while the site work is completed at the same time.