{"id":147557,"date":"2022-09-22T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/architizer.com\/blog\/?p=147557"},"modified":"2022-11-12T05:54:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T10:54:59","slug":"the-reserves-at-gray-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/architizer.com\/blog\/practice\/details\/the-reserves-at-gray-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Duvall Decker Rethinks the Nature of Public and Private Space and Develops Eco-Friendly Reserves at Gray Park"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Project Status: Built<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Year: 2021<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Size: 25,000 sqft – 100,000 sqft<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Budget: 5M – 10M<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Reserves at Gray Park <\/strong>\u2013 In Greenville, like many towns in Mississippi, years of white flight increased the city footprint and lowered density. The Reserves at Gray Park was an opportunity to provide right-sized infill housing for Greenville\u2019s missing middle, a shift from single-family housing to support non-traditional families, individuals living alone, and extended nuclear families. Duvall Decker’s challenge for the project was to repurpose an abandoned park in the middle of a neighborhood to provide much-needed housing density and diversity.<\/p>\n

Architizer chatted with Shannon Gathings, AIA, NOMA and Project Manager at Duvall Decker Architects<\/a>, to learn more about this project.<\/p>\n

Architizer: What inspired the initial concept for your design?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shannon Gathings: Given the historical and current socio-economical context, our proposal was to rethink the nature of public and private space in the missing middle and develop housing units that meet the needs of smaller diverse families at costs within their means. The other salient design issues are how to create prototype homes that increase density, form new planning options for large vacant parcels of land, and infill existing lots in the missing middle neighborhoods in ways that do not stigmatize those in need of affordable housing solutions \u2026a radically different solution that also fits right in.<\/p>\n