Rendering of a long brick and dark-metal building on a corner at sunset

Greenwood Avenue

Trenton, NJ · Under construction

Multifamily & mixed-use

A 24-apartment building in Trenton, with a brick entrance tower marking the corner and eight homes on each floor.

Location: Trenton, NJ
Status: Under construction
Project: Multifamily, New construction
Our role: Architect — concept, permit drawings, answers to the plan review

What we worked through

The building holds 24 apartments on three floors, every one designed as an accessible Type A unit.

We kept the plan simple so the floors stack cleanly, and the way in is through the brick tower where the building turns the corner. The basement has a fitness room and bike storage.

Our part

The owner brought plans for the building to us. We built our own model from them, developed the design and carried it through the permit drawings. The building is now under construction.

How the building is organized

Eight apartments on each floor, connected by a central corridor and two stairs. Open up Greenwood Avenue to see how the plan comes together.

End homes, about 900 sq ft
Middle homes, about 700 sq ft

The assembled building, from the concept and permit drawings.The roof lifted off and the floors separated; the top floor’s eight homes numbered.The homes dimmed: the stairs, the elevator and the corridor, with their shafts through all three floors.The first floor, with the way in from the sidewalk traced in gold.The assembled front: one apartment traced to its two windows, with the floor lines and unit walls behind the facade.

The building

Twenty-four apartments on three floors of eight, entered through a brick tower at the corner. Choose a view to open the model.

Homes: 24, eight on each floor
Floors: Three, over a basement
Parking: 26 spaces on the site

Eight homes on every floor

Four smaller apartments sit in the middle of each floor and four larger ones take the ends, all opening off one corridor. The same plan repeats on all three floors, so walls, stairs and the elevator line up from the basement to the roof.

Accessible: Every apartment is designed as an accessible Type A unit

Two stairs, an elevator and one corridor

A stair at each end gives every home two ways out, and one corridor reaches all eight doors on a floor. The elevator and a stair sit beside the entrance, so the way in and the way up are in the same place.

Arriving from the street

The brick tower at the corner is the front door. Inside it are a small lobby and the package room, with the elevator and a stair right beside them; from there the corridor leads to every apartment.

The plan, seen from the street

Each apartment brings its own windows to the street, so the plan behind the front sets its rhythm. Brick carries the two lower floors along the street and the tower at the corner; lighter siding finishes the top floor and the far end.

Talk about a site

Design development · facade studies, March 2024