Fremont Urban Mixed-Use is a building we designed on the main street of Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood. This building contains 38 residential units ranging in size from large studios to efficient 1 and 2BR apartments. It also includes a below-grade garage for 8 car parking stalls and many bike parking stalls. This building replaced a surface parking lot and small commercial space sold by the previous owner. Its ground level is now anchored by a larger commercial space intended to become a restaurant or other similar use w/ large sliders that open onto the street frontage of 36th Ave.
The building itself is first broken into a 3-story massing at the street level for scale. Units facing 36th have a pleated facade and fold along their living areas at levels 2 and 3, providing balcony and corner window conditions which allow light on 2-sides for these units floating above the highly glazed restaurant space. Expressing a vertically compatible scale of 10’ - 30’ at the primary street edge really helps this building fit in better w/ the block and adjacent buildings as they slowly densify and the city grows. The rear units offer private patios and gardens w/ a generous zone transition setback from the townhouses located to the North of the site and their parking court. Rooftop decks face skyline views along w/ the Fremont Canal and create a residential plaza for tenants including solar arrays and urban agriculture.
We are very proud to have been the architect of this building for Fremont and we worked very hard along the way to make it a reality through many programmatic iterations of the building, unit matrix, and pro-forma. It was the biggest building the owner and builder had created to date. Their senior rep passed away during the course of its creation and we wish he could have seen the finished structure. We are eternally grateful for the talented team involved start to finish and we hope this building really grows into this beautiful community now that it’s filling w/ life.
Location: Fremont, Seattle
Architect: Lemons Architecture & Urban Growth
Structural Engineer: Malsam Tsang Structural Engineering
Civil Engineer: Davido Consulting Group
Geotechnical Engineer: The Galli Group
Landscape Architect: Andrews Landscape Architects
MEP Engineers: Solarc and Stantec
Client: Private Owner & Builder