The Battery - Phase 3
The Battery - Phase 3
Location: Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, PA
Client: Onion Flats
Completion Date: 2017
Project Type: Multi-Family
Project Overview: The Battery / Capital 2, completed in 2017, responded to the need for sustainable and attainable market rate housing in a neighborhood now fully gentrified and increasingly more socially and economically homogenous. Affordable 1-bedroom apartments for young professionals, recent graduates or seniors on fixed incomes are difficult to find below $1500/month + utilities. This project attempts to help balance that inequity by creating a 4-story, net zero building, packed with 25 1-bedroom apartments. In order to achieve this level of density, affordability, and sustainability, we maximized zoning allowances, density bonus incentives for a green roof, solar orientation, 2 1000’ deep geothermal wells which provide heating, cooling and hot water to all units, extensive green roof to manage stormwater, super-insulated prefabricated thermal envelope with triple pane windows, airtight construction and a 72 kW photovoltaic canopy on the roof which generates all the electricity the building requires on an annual basis. The project is a PHIUS certified passive house, and is designed to consume 75% less energy than a similar code building.
