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CASE STUDY NO. 5
COLONIAL HOUSE MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING
W. Roderick Avenue
Building Program
There are four unit sizes in the project, specified by the number of bedrooms (1BR, 2BR, 3BR, 4BR). The eight one-bedroom units average 730 sq. ft. and the eight largest, the four-bedroom units, average 1,445 sq. ft. There are sixteen two-bedroom units, the most popular size, averag- ing 919 sq. ft., and twelve three-bedroom units averaging 1,204 sq. ft. There is one bathroom in the one- and two-bedroom units, with two bathrooms in both the three- and four-bedroom units. These rental units are planned on two levels above one level of parking and commercial spaces that are located at the periphery of the site at the street frontage.
There are community laundry facilities, so no individual unit has a washer or dryer. (The account- ing of energy use for the individual unit therefore does not include these usual “plug load” items.)
Each one-bedroom unit is allotted one parking space in the ground-level parking area below the housing podium. All other units receive two spaces each. The commercial spaces located at the ground level are managed separately from the housing units above and are not connected to the LEED or ZNE goals for the building. Their energy use as well as electric loads associated with the parking are not counted in the energy use total for the multifamily housing project.
The solar PV system on the roof is dedicated solely to the housing units and community spaces and their ZNE goal. This case study is therefore concerned with the second and third levels of this whole Colonial House project and is limited to the 44 units of affordable rental housing for farmworkers and the associated community spaces.
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