In San Jose, CA, affordable housing is a little hard to come by. However some developers are changing that, one artist at a time. The new Art Ark is a live/work land use where local artists are housed in efficiency style apartments with art studios attached to their units. In addition there is a first floor art galley and sculpture yard where they can showcase their recent works. The adaptive re-use took part of an old factory (as seen in the above picture) and mixed the art colony into a two neighborhood theme (one being owner-occupied housing and the other is rental). The architecture firm was David Baker and Partners and they believe in giving high architectural qualities and standards to all of their projects. This highly successful project still offers units at reasonable rent rates for the San Jose area.
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