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Download a PDF recap of the Grimm + Parker multifamily research report, The New Normal & The Future of Multifamily Housing. It wears on mental sanity,” said one exasperated resident whom the report quoted. I can hear doors slamming, cabinets slamming, constant thuds from neighbors above, dogs barking. “Quarantine is difficult enough, but the added noise from other residents makes it so much more difficult. The vast majority of the survey’s respondents-92%-saw the social and physical implications of COVID-19 as being at least moderate, and in some cases significant. Storage, moveable furniture, and more space for physical activities, both in- and outdoors, could define the apartment of the future. Rendering Grimm + Parker This article also draws from commentary from three Grimm + Parker design architects-Zak Schooley, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Executive Vice President Julio Cruz, Architectural Designer and Lauren Gilmartin, Architectural Designer-whom BD+C interviewed last December. The following article is based on the report that came out of that firm’s exploration, titled “The New Normal and the Future of Multifamily Housing,” and created from responses of a dozen developers and 91 residents in the Washington, D.C.–Maryland–Virginia markets.
Other design firms have speculated on the impact COVID-19 is likely to have on apartment living, but far fewer have provided solutions as specifically as Grimm + Parker. To capture these thoughts, and to understand the future of multifamily housing, a team at Grimm + Parker Architects, which specializes in affordable and sustainable architecture projects, last summer conducted a fact-based exploration of the challenges and pressures that developers and residents experienced during the health crisis, and how those factors are likely to affect apartment design.
And because of the COVID-19 pandemic, developers and residents have been forced to rethink apartment living in terms of health, space, and utility. Nearly 40 million Americans live in apartments.
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