Locality is developed to provide new-edge and vivid living space for its inhabitants, who range from single students living in bachelor apartments to families living in three-bedroom duplex suites. Variety of apartments caters to and attracts wide range of dwellers, bringing diversity and vitality into the neighborhood's vibrant life-style. Close and open to Broad Street rail station, neighborhood layout makes public transport part of the community, lowering need for car usage and supporting site accessibility and local economy. Proximity of small workshops and retail spaces on first floors of the buildings encourages multi-families to take full engagement in entrepreneurship and community economic life. Roof used as a community garden brings fresh and organic fruits and vegetables to multi-family inmates, promoting collective sense of sustainability, strong social bonds and care for fellow neighbor. Communal farmer's market, other than fresh food, brings new spectrum of public communication and local economy relations. Although main intention was to encourage use of public transportation, locality provides underground parking for residents and visitors in order to get the most out of green landscape and to extend vehicles' useful life. Geothermal heating and cooling, solar panels and new technology insulation are all used to reduce energy consumption and negative environmental impact to minimum. Absence of elevators and exposed stairwells promote residents' vigor and also contribute to energy conservation. To further support sense of interconnection, buildings' color pattern doesn't follow apartments' disposition, making impression that apartments are boundless and interacting with each other. Exposed overpasses intersect buildings for better communication with the adjacent space, bringing warm feeling of candor and closeness.
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