The Oak & Alder Townhome in Seattle, Washington is an interesting urban home designed by Hybrid for two different families.

Description
Nestled in Seattle?s Central District neighborhood, Oak & Alder celebrates the city?s past while setting the tone for its future. Complete with a rusted corten steel exterior, massive windows, and a pitched roofline, the townhome doesn?t look like other multi-family structures around town?and that?s exactly what the project?s developer, architect, and builder, Hybrid, aimed to achieve.
Inspired by a nearby red brick high school and neighboring craftsman homes, Oak & Alder reinterprets the Central District?s recognizable features into a stylish high-density housing solution. In a city struggling to meet the growing demand for affordable housing, Oak & Alder accommodates two very different homeowners with incredible flexibility, design innovation, and ample access to natural light. ?75 percent of Seattle?s land is dedicated to single-family zoning, which is extremely uncommon for a city this size,? says Hybrid?s Project Designer and Development Manager, Alex Herbig. ?Oak & Alder is the missing middle typology that offers unit density but at a scale and materiality that plays well with respect to the adjacent single-family homes.?
Oak & Alder?s corten steel exterior is a play on the brick high school across the street, while the pitched roofline mimics the craftsman homes next door.
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