架构师提供的文本描述。这座建筑沿着拐角处的长边(第六街)布置，以便为一个阳光明媚的庭院和花园预留一个20英尺的边场。这种配置还允许庭院直接连接到橡树街的底层社区房间、厨房、洗衣房和入口。庭院花园被设计成一系列的户外空间，从社区到更多的私人活动。

Text description provided by the architects. The building was arranged along the long edge (Sixth Street) of the corner site in order to reserve a twenty foot sideyard for a sunny landscaped courtyard and garden. This configuration also allows the courtyard to be directly linked to the ground floor community room, kitchen, laundry and entrance on Oak Street. The courtyard garden is designed as a series of outdoor spaces from community to more private activities.

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蒂姆·格里菲斯

高天花板的底层区域被玻璃墙包围，以增强社区空间和公共人行道的视觉连通性。通过使用堆叠式停车升降机，减少了所需的现场停车足迹。停车场被绿色的屏风板包裹着，这将在人行道和庭院上形成一堵生机勃勃的墙。此外，种植床被安置在建筑物的街道下面，并兼有雨水蓄水池的功能。通过减少底层的视觉足迹，上层似乎漂浮在上面，减轻了它们的影响。上层被组织成两条平行的公寓带，由一条宽阔的走廊隔开，再加上消防楼梯和电梯。

The high ceiling ground floor areas are surrounded by glass walls to enhance the visual connectivity of the community spaces and the public sidewalk. The footprint of the required on-site parking is reduced by the use of stacked parking lifts. The parking garage is wrapped with green screen panels that will create a living wall along the sidewalk and courtyard. In addition, planting beds are tucked under the street side of the building and double function as storm water retention tanks. By reducing the visual footprint of the ground floor level, the upper floors appear to float above which lightens their impact. The upper floors are organized into two parallel bands of apartments separated by a wide hallway combined with the fire stairs and elevators.

 © Tim Griffith

蒂姆·格里菲斯

走廊的尽头是开放的大窗户，以提供景观和引入日光。许多公寓都有阳台，这些阳台都是嵌入建筑内部的。在南面(红色)立面，阳台是一个凹区的一部分，减轻视觉和噪音的影响相邻高速公路，同时提供太阳能遮阳。各种开口和植物支撑网格板提供了高速公路规模的组成。在北面(绿色)的开放配置提供了一个规模和品种兼容相邻的住宅小区。这座建筑的配色方案强调了公寓的两条隔开，以及外部建筑的“表皮”与内部阳台和空隙之间的隔阂。

The ends of the hallways are open with large windows to provide views and introduce daylight. Many of the apartments are provided with balconies that are recessed into the building mass. On the south (red) façade, the balconies are part of a recessed zone that mitigates the visual and noise impact of the adjacent freeway at the same time providing solar shading. The variety of openings and plant supporting mesh panels provides a freeway scale composition. On the north (green) faced the opening configuration provides a scale and variety compatible with the adjacent residential neighborhood. The building’s color scheme accentuates the separation between the two bars of apartments and between the outer building “skin” and the internal balconies and voids. 

 © Tim Griffith

蒂姆·格里菲斯