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Catherine Arms Apartments
A very tight $2.4M budget added 30% more space and completely rehabilitated the rest. Every apartment has a different plan due to the need to work with existing structural grids and shell; apartments range from flats to 2-story units. All two-story units are entered from level 2, half with living spaces below and bedrooms above; the other half are reversed with living space at L3. |
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Thompson + Pollari | Planners + Architects | 5525 E. Pinchot Ave.
| Phoenix AZ 85018-8155 | (602) 957-2250 |
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The 28-unit Catherine Arms Apartments in downtown Phoenix represents
a bold intervention to a 1950’s, 20-unit apartment building and
provides affordable, transitional housing in an area experiencing revitalization.
Saving the existing structure required new steel structural frames
that isolate structural loads from the existing building and allow
a totally energized set of building elevations. New building mass,
supported over three quadrants of the existing two-story building and
cantilevered over building setbacks on three sides, creates space for
the new stairs and third level residential space. The project went
through an intensive Variance process to handle parking requirements
and setback encroachments. The overall impression left with the new
construction is that of a energized contemporary urban building, respectful
of its origins, but evocative of its’ new mission.