Affordable housing need not be of lower standard and lesser quality. Designed with different goals and spirit, this project aspires not only to contribute to the lives of the users, but also to improve the quality of the city.This 47,000 SF project, located on Clybourn Avenue, just north of Division Street, provides four floors of residential units with community spaces on the ground floor complimenting the activity and life of this resurging part of the city.The site plan grows from a response to the urban condition. The linear building respects the street wall of Clybourn Avenue. The irregular configuration of the site toward the west lends itself to landscaped, open spaces for the tenants and required parking.The materials are simple, minimal and visible: concrete for the structure and glass with profiled stainless steel for the facade. At the stairs and edges, the metal is perforated. Individual punched windows give the units a feeling of individuality and maintain the surface in the metal façade. Glass planks give the end façade and ground floor spaces a luminous quality.