The New Urban Home
5 October 2005

The New Urban Home is not a house, it is a home.

Home is intangible: it is not walls and floor and ceiling, but a nucleus around which life flourishes. No single thing can transform a house into a home, and it is often the most intangible characteristics that are most important. The New Urban Home realizes the importance of well-appointed details, and provides the constitution needed to craft your ideal home.

The New Urban Home is influenced by the success of artists’ live/work lofts in urban areas. By picking up where lofts and condominiums have left off, the New Urban Home provides a flexible and stylish living space, in addition to the satisfaction of real home ownership. This unique housing solution offers the autonomy of a typical single family household, without the alienation. Furthermore, the New Urban Home promotes a more sustainable lifestyle than the remoteness of the suburbs ever can: living in such proximity to a commercial and civic center is less taxing on both the resident and the environment. In equilibrium, the New Urban Home owner enjoys both the excitement of urban living and a tranquil retreat from urbanity.

The New Urban Home is designed for all users. With a flexible floor plan, the New Urban Home will adapt to the needs of its inhabitants, present and future. A room’s function is user-defined. A New Urban Home owner can opt for freestanding furniture, or the seamlessness of quality built in amenities.

“I think that the New Urban Home is high density. Density is one of these words that many people think is negative, but studies have been done to show that for every time you double density, for instance, driving drops 25%; the number of interesting nearby services and usages grows.”

Architect, David Baker of David Baker + Partners

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