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Haywood Apartments
Haywood Road, Asheville, NC, United States
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Haywood Apartments
Haywood Road, Asheville, NC, United States
Type
STATUS
Under Construction
YEAR
2024
SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
At 818 Haywood Road in West Asheville, architect Doug Pierson, AIA, LEED AP, BD+C, and experiential designer Youn Choi have completely gutted the two-level, 1930s bungalow there. Now the husband-and-wife team behind the award-winning studio pod architecture + design (pod a+d) in Chapel Hill, is reorganizing, rebuilding, and repurposing the house to accommodate three thoroughly Modern apartments. The partners call it “Phase 1” of the old bungalow’s rebirth as the stylish Haywood Apartments.
“Phase 1 is about restoring a dilapidated 1930s house on Haywood Road to its original and historic exterior beauty,” Choi pointed out, “and creating modern interiors befitting this hip, up-and-coming neighborhood environment.”
Although the house is on-grade at the front, it becomes two stories at the rear where the slope of the property drops sharply, thus allowing space for three units inside. The largest will have 1275 square feet, the other two one-bedroom units approximately 760 square feet each.
The couple expects construction to be complete in May so tenants can move in by June. And they’re determined to keep to that schedule because Pierson and Choi are not only the architect and interior designers for this project. They’re also the owners, developers, landscape architects, and property managers.
Why Asheville? “Because Asheville is the hub of Western North Carolina,” Pierson explained, “with vibrant art and cultural identities. And West Asheville is the most expressive and intriguing neighborhood, filled with novel restaurants, retro-cool music venues, vintage clothing shops, and great murals.”
They chose the property and bungalow at 818 Haywood Road because “the most sustainable act we, as designers, can do is to keep an existing building and make it better, more energy efficient, more livable, and more amenable to local needs,” he said. “It was always our intention to refurbish and repurpose the house to fit the needs of the community better -- where there happens to be a drastic shortage of one-bedroom apartments – and to make that spot along Haywood Road vibrant again.”
On the exterior, they’re repairing and maintaining the low-pitched gabled roof and the German lap wood siding “all of which is typical of the old bungalows on Haywood Road,” Choi noted. Inside, they’re juxtaposing the original exposed brick with Modern plywood-paneled “cathedral” ceilings and exposed structural steel elements.
Urban Infill in Phase 2
Phase 2 of the partners’ West Asheville venture (date TBD) will be to develop and design a new 3500-square-foot, mixed-use “urban infill” building facing Haywood Road “as a contemporary complement to the richly textured neighborhood,” Pierson said.
“Phase 1 is about restoring a dilapidated 1930s house on Haywood Road to its original and historic exterior beauty,” Choi pointed out, “and creating modern interiors befitting this hip, up-and-coming neighborhood environment.”
Although the house is on-grade at the front, it becomes two stories at the rear where the slope of the property drops sharply, thus allowing space for three units inside. The largest will have 1275 square feet, the other two one-bedroom units approximately 760 square feet each.
The couple expects construction to be complete in May so tenants can move in by June. And they’re determined to keep to that schedule because Pierson and Choi are not only the architect and interior designers for this project. They’re also the owners, developers, landscape architects, and property managers.
Why Asheville? “Because Asheville is the hub of Western North Carolina,” Pierson explained, “with vibrant art and cultural identities. And West Asheville is the most expressive and intriguing neighborhood, filled with novel restaurants, retro-cool music venues, vintage clothing shops, and great murals.”
They chose the property and bungalow at 818 Haywood Road because “the most sustainable act we, as designers, can do is to keep an existing building and make it better, more energy efficient, more livable, and more amenable to local needs,” he said. “It was always our intention to refurbish and repurpose the house to fit the needs of the community better -- where there happens to be a drastic shortage of one-bedroom apartments – and to make that spot along Haywood Road vibrant again.”
On the exterior, they’re repairing and maintaining the low-pitched gabled roof and the German lap wood siding “all of which is typical of the old bungalows on Haywood Road,” Choi noted. Inside, they’re juxtaposing the original exposed brick with Modern plywood-paneled “cathedral” ceilings and exposed structural steel elements.
Urban Infill in Phase 2
Phase 2 of the partners’ West Asheville venture (date TBD) will be to develop and design a new 3500-square-foot, mixed-use “urban infill” building facing Haywood Road “as a contemporary complement to the richly textured neighborhood,” Pierson said.
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