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Auburn Housing
Authority/ Housing for the
Elderly & Barrier-Free Housing Auburn,
Massachusetts |
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Thomas Mayo Associates/Architects & Urban Designers was selected as the Architect
for this joint effort between the Auburn Housing Authority and the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Communities & Development.
This Housing for the Elderly/Barrier Free Housing project is a part of an
overall $4.5 million dollar residential development consisting of four
separate components on four separate sites located in Auburn, Massachusetts. The four components, totaling 45 new
housing units, include this 667 Housing for the Elderly/Barrier Free Housing
project, a 705 Family Housing project, a 167 Special Needs Housing project,
and a project consisting of a new Maintenance Garage and renovated
Administration Offices for the Housing Authority. Total building area for the entire project
is 45,400 square feet. This Housing for the Elderly and Barrier Free Housing component
consists of the construction of four new two-story structures located at the
rear of the Housing Authority's existing Pakachoag Village site. The building
construction consists of wood-framed structure, prefabricated wood roof
trusses and concrete slab on grade.
Total building area for this component is 22,608 square feet, and
includes 28 new single bedroom standard dwelling units and three fully
accessible barrier-free units. The barrier-free housing units and a laundry/community building
are located in single story structures, while the standard housing units are
located in two-story buildings designed so that groups of four individual
units are clustered around a common entrance/stair core. Working with an extremely tight site, TMA
developed the site design for the project based on orienting the dwelling
units in four separate buildings around a central landscaped parking
area. Access road connection is
provided to the existing Pakachoag Village housing area, as well as an
emergency access road (designed as a pedestrian pathway) at the rear of the
site. Other site improvements include
site lighting, sidewalks and landscaping. This project has been designed under Massachusetts Architectural Access Board
and Federal Fair Housing Accessibility Guidelines, and was developed in close
coordination with the Town of Auburn through the Comprehensive Permit
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