PROJECT
Riverwalk
CLIENT
Affirmed Housing Group
LOCATION
Chula Vista, California
USER
Low income families
BUILDING AREA
47,633 sf (one to three stories)
NUMBER OF UNITS
50 units (1, 2, 3 Bedrooms)
DU/ACRE
19 du/ac
PARKING
80 spaces
SITE AREA
2.6 Acres
AMENITIES
Meeting rooms, computer room, laundry, tot lot and exercise room
CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS
Wood-framed structures clad in stucco, fiber cement trim, metal roof, wood trellis/awnings, wood railings, with a prefab corten steel bridge
DESIGN FACTS
Completed while project architect at Studio E Architects
STORY TO TELL
This project site had a variety of extreme challenges from a creek bisecting the site to Wildfire restrictions. Five buildings are carefully arranged along opposing banks—linked by a footbridge over a small seasonal creek. The creek was cleaned out, re-vegetated with native species, and re-purposed as a part of a linked community open space/walking trail