TN4 Townhomes

  • Architecture
    Interior Design
    Comprehensive Planning
    Programming
    Site Evaluation/Selection
    Site Planning

  • Carbon-Sequestering Biogenic Material
    Comprehensive Planning
    Enhanced Site Accessibility
    Low Maintenance Materials
    Passive Building Envelope

  • Completed August 2015

  • Memphis, Tennessee

Four new townhouses built on an abandoned corner lot at the edge of the South Main Arts District bring desirable and unique residences to the district.

Each townhome features walk-up access, a two-car garage, and roof deck overlooking the Mississippi River. The result is a creative blend of dependable and industrial southern materials, thereby integrating these residents into the historic and vibrant fabric of the South Main Historic Arts District.

  • The client, a residential developer and resident of the district, wanted to develop on an empty corner lot on a street occupied by repurposed warehouses and single-family residences. Because of the tentative residential market at the time, the client needed a flexible plan that could be rented in case the units did not sell (all sold before construction was complete). Each room of the modestly scaled units is made to feel more expansive by utilizing floor to ceiling glass, private patios, and balconies to extend the spaces outdoors. The client’s interest in creating multiple uses, density, and activity on the site was addressed by allowing the adjacent office building he owns to use the rear parking lot while residents are mostly gone during the day. In order to fully utilize the site and further increase density. The design responds formally to the chaotic amalgamation of styles and scales of the street by maintaining a simple rectangular brick volume articulated by projecting metal balconies. A wooden façade is revealed as the brick is peeled away from the condo entries while at the sides of the building, the brick dissolves into a cement board and batten system as a compositional play on the fenestration pattern.

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