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The Reserves at Gray Park  

The Reserves at Gray Park

Jackson, MS, United States

Popular Winner, 2022 A+Awards, Residential - Affordable Housing
Project of the Day on Sep 22, 2022
Project Featured on Sep 22, 2022
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The Reserves at Gray Park

Jackson, MS, United States

Popular Winner, 2022 A+Awards, Residential - Affordable Housing
Project of the Day on Sep 22, 2022
Project Featured on Sep 22, 2022
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2021
SIZE
25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft
BUDGET
$5M - 10M
The Reserves at Gray Park neighborhood of Greenville, Mississippi is a missing middle. The area is located between downtown and the more affluent suburbs and commercial strips. It is the area of the city left behind by demographic and economic changes in the community. The existing housing stock is old, in poor condition, and too large for most families to afford and no longer meets the needs of the community.

The three-building types developed to serve as infill and/or cluster sites in the Ed Gray neighborhood were designed to fit the scale of typical lot sizes while increasing density by 200-400%. The housing units are modest in size but with flexible floor plans, ranging from 750 SF one-bedroom to 1,200 SF three-bedroom. When clustered, the buildings form a mass similar to the typical single-family homes in the existing neighborhood, allowing greater density and a fit and feel that resists the stigmatizing typology of “affordable housing.”

In this project, multiple buildings are clustered in the abandoned park, and a neighborhood within the neighborhood is created. A common semi-private open space is developed on the interior of the block offering a safe place for residents to socialize. The new buildings are durably built and energy-efficient, utilizing passive design strategies combined with high-efficiency HVAC systems, instant hot water heaters, energy star appliances, natural light-harvesting, and an enhanced thermal insulated envelope. The cluster site includes 17 buildings that together provide 42 new affordable housing units in the community. Material choices were economical and durable. The spatial and formal strategies of designing two and three housing units into one “house-like” form kept the stick framing and truss simple and allowed for all short and smaller sized dimensional, renewable lumber. The total project area is 42,016 GSF, and the total construction cost was $5,039,567 ($120/GSF).

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