The Miami Row House is an exploratory project here at Building Center No.3. Our design team has looked at the housing market on the edges of the urban core where there are still large pockets of single family homes. The question we asked was: What would a Miami Row House look like?

Our design team focused on three key areas for a Miami prototype: natural light, outdoor space and an automobile solution. The first task was to develop the optimal size of a plot: 48 feet wide by 40 feet deep. In practice we have simply compressed the typical single family plot size of 55 ft x 120 ft so that the front yard and the backyard spaces are distributed differently. We also dispensed with the idea of a shared party wall -we wanted to use the sides of the structure for windows and natural light. Lastly, we created a garage for tandem parking and placed a green roof atop for an elevated outdoor amenity.