Denver Affordable Housing Competition, 2025

Designed as John G Ellis with Chang Xu and Jasper Hunter

An entry for the Denver Affordable Housing Competition. The proposal focused on the vast number of empty surface parking lots surrounding Downtown Denver as potential sites for new mixed-income housing that would help repair the fractured urban fabric and take advantage of newly installed light rail transit.. A site northeast of Downtown was selected which had a range of sites, some full block, others partial blocks. The proposal explored the potential of the recent changes to Colorado’s building codes allowing Single-Stair Access up to six stories for four units per floor. A range of building types are shown serving different segments of the community. These include three-story tick-under townhouses, walk-up and elevator and single- stair accessed stacked flats.

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