ARCHITECTURE
ACTIVE STAIR AND COLORADO FLOOD MEMORIAL
BRANDING & SIGNAGE
FURNITURE, ART, WAYFINDING
RESIDENT UNITS
RENDERINGS
LHA | Longmont Housing Development Corporation/Housing Authority
PROJECT DATES
2014 –2017
DESCRIPTION
Spring Creek is a 3-story, 100% affordable community for active seniors (55+) made up of 60 1- and 2-bedroom units. The program includes creative spaces to encourage healthy lifestyles including an active stair, outdoor biking stations, exercise/yoga rooms and green space with a pavilion. The design of Spring Creek focused on creating spaces that enhance resident connection to the outdoors and cultivate community. In addition to interior gathering spaces and outdoor decks and seating, Spring Creek has a picnic area, parkour stations, and community gardens.
SERVICES PROVIDED
WORKSHOP8 provided entitlement and community outreach services, site planning, architecture, interior design, FF&E, branding, signage design, art design and selection, and contract administration in-house and included civil, landscape, MEP and structural engineering through subconsultants.
PROJECT TEAM
Architect | Joseph Vigil
Creative Director | Brandy LeMae
Project & Production Manager | Emily Axtman
Production Support | Ivan Patino
Interior Designers | Kate Van Sluyter and Chelsea Semelka
Graphic Designers | Graham Bowman and Melissa McGinley
Developer | Longmont Housing Development Corporation
General Contractor | Deneuve Construction
Landscape Architect | Lime Green Design
Civil Engineer | Brown Civil Engineering
Structural Engineer | LT Engineering
Mechanical Engineer | Gehring & Associates
Photographer | Ryan Lawrence
SIZE
60 Units / 58,000 SF
FUNDING
9% LIHTIC, City Grant
SUSTAINABILITY
2011 - EGC
Optimal solar orientation , PV ready, continuous air-barrier, greater than code insulation, high performance fiberglass windows, window awnings to keep the building from over heating, and evaporative cooling for the common spaces.
SAFE HARBORS
HUD Fair Housing
2017-ADA ICC A117.1
CONSTRUCTION COST
9,800,000
MEDIA COVERAGE
October 2014 — Longmont's New Affordable, Senior Complex Reaches Boulder County Residents Displaced By Flood / Boulder Daily Camera
READ THE BLOGS :
lines, and tax credits, and bears! oh my! — 28 October 2014
the babies are booming! — 18 May 2015
what's in a name? — 8 June 2016
my grama and your grama — 18 July 2016
grand opening — 8 October 2016
introducing spring creek — 28 February 2017