Chelsea Neighborhood Developers Facade Redesign Competition

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Chelsea Neighborhood Developers Facade Redesign Competition

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STUDIOthree Architecture+Design

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Residential › Multi Unit Housing

Chelsea’s Shurtleff-Bellingham neighborhood has been ravaged by the housing crisis. On some streets more than twenty-percent of the homes are in foreclosure, resulting in social and economic destabilization for the residents who remain. The City of Chelsea and Chelsea Neighborhood Developers (CND) are engaged in a comprehensive, coordinated intervention with the goal of fostering a healthy, stable, economically diverse neighborhood where people live by choice. This requires construction of both new high quality affordable housing on underutilized land parcels, and, through the Neighborhood Stabilization Initiative (NSI), rehabilitation of existing homes that are in foreclosure. Many of the foreclosed properties in the neighborhood are triple-deckers, which have deteriorated due to lack of maintenance and investment. As part of our NSI work, CND acquires properties along key nodes and corridors, with the goal of targeting investment to maximize community impact, encourage new investment in surrounding properties, and set a community standard for design.
The vision behind the proposed design looks to celebrate Chelsea's past as an innovative and productive city. Just as Chelsea led the country in shipbuilding and subsequent industries, the design of the facade aims to continue building the Shurtleff-Bellingham Neighborhood as a diverse, creative, productive, and adaptable community.