Arthur Avenue Senior Apartments

Location
600 East 179th Street, Bronx
Role
Design Architect & Technical Delivery
Type
Affordable Housing, Interiors, Senior Living
Status
Completed 2021
Scale
140,420 sq. ft., 9 stories, 95 ft. tall, 176 units

Arthur Avenue Senior Apartments is a nine-story affordable senior housing complex in the Tremont neighborhood of The Bronx. The facility has a focus on environmental awareness and managing physical health.

The 95-foot tall structure yields 140,420 square feet for residential use. All 176 apartments rent at affordable rates for seniors. Units range in size from studios to one-bedrooms.

Residents have access to a live-in super, laundry, bicycle storage, and an eighth-floor lounge with a reading room, arts and crafts space, a computer room, fitness center, and two setbacks yielding two outdoor terraces with over 4,000 square feet of planting space easily accessible for residents in wheelchairs. Additional open space is available for residents, with biophilic interiors that include a green wall in the lobby, a green roof, vertical farming for herbs and lettuces, an integrated greenhouse and community room with teaching kitchen, and a working vegetable garden where seniors can grow and share food with the community.

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