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.
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