The Rose (South Quarter Phase IV)

The view from the corner of Franklin and Portland Avenues shows the project’s relationship to downtown Minneapolis and the redefinition of an important urban corner.
Integrated sustainable design strategies for heating, cooling, solar shading, daylight harvesting, renewable energy, landscape and water conservation.
A variety of open spaces are integrated with the urban context and building configuration to provide opportunities for residents and the community for gathering, recreation and urban agriculture.
Each façade responds to its solar orientation
South Quarter Phase IV completes the important urban intersection of Portland and Franklin Avenues and responds to the variety of scales in the context.

Deep Green Affordable Housing

The Rose

Minneapolis, MN

Power of Integrated Design

Integrated design and early modeling combine to yield a high-performance building on an affordable housing budget. The Rose is organized around a central courtyard, and oriented to achieve net-zero energy and address a formerly blighted urban corner. Design features meet multiple objectives; site design integrates planting and stormwater management that functions within this region’s extreme climate and encourages resident interaction.

Healthy, Urban Living for All

With a range of unit sizes, the Rose serves income-limited and formerly homeless individuals in addition to market-rate tenants. The Rose provides truly ‘affordable living’ with extensive bike amenities, car-sharing and significantly reduced utility costs (models show 70% energy reduction).

Transforming Lives

A resident engagement program promotes a sense of community and healthy, sustainable practices. The largest affordable housing project in the country following the Living Building Challenge guidelines, The Rose also aims to transform the affordable housing industry at large.

Client

Aeon and Hope Community

Overview

This next-level green affordable housing demonstrates the possibilities for urban infill projects to promote equity and a sense of community together with healthy and sustainable lifestyles

Program

90 residential units, ground floor community space, courtyard and 5,000 sf garden

Size

142,380 sf; 1.65 acres

Sustainable Metrics

Living Building Challenge, Targeted

Services

Architecture

Collaborators

PLACE, owner's sustainability consultant; University of Minnesota’s Center for Sustainable Building Research, energy consultant; MSR, local architects implementing project

Awards

Urban Land Institue, Jack Kemp Excellence in Affordable and Workforce Housing Award, Finalist

Mariposa – South Lincoln Redevelopment Master Plan Denver, CO +

Jordan Downs Los Angeles, CA +

High Point Seattle, WA +

Hunters View Master Plan San Francisco, CA +

The view from the corner of Franklin and Portland Avenues shows the project’s relationship to downtown Minneapolis and the redefinition of an important urban corner.

Integrated sustainable design strategies for heating, cooling, solar shading, daylight harvesting, renewable energy, landscape and water conservation.

A variety of open spaces are integrated with the urban context and building configuration to provide opportunities for residents and the community for gathering, recreation and urban agriculture.

Each façade responds to its solar orientation

South Quarter Phase IV completes the important urban intersection of Portland and Franklin Avenues and responds to the variety of scales in the context.

Deep Green Affordable Housing

The Rose