The Carol Apartments

SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE — MISSING MIDDLE HOUSING — RESIDENTIAL DESIGN

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON

The Carol Apartments is a 4-Star Built Green 4-unit apartment building on the rear of a highly constrained urban lot, behind an existing small apartment building. CAST's design optimized the building footprint for accessibility, parking, and amenity space while maximizing the southern view toward downtown. The building is a single stair building with access to a roof deck for the topmost unit.

CAST is closely associated with efforts to improve housing affordability through increasing the “missing middle,” moderate density infill within existing neighborhoods. This work includes policy advocacy work as well as the design of accessory dwelling units and small-scale apartment buildings.

Green Design: 4-Star Built Green, Green Zoning, Urban Infill