HomeMy WebLinkAboutHDC2006-013 Information About Environments For Observing Nature 09/18/2006September 18, 2006
Environments for observing nature, entertaining, relaxing, working and living instill the
creative process of PaulPage Dwellings, LLC. We strive to create home designs with
access to outdoor space that is built -in —not just an afterthought, and marketable
neighborhoods that create green areas that connect with a neighborhoods' history and
culture. Inspired by everything from century -old buildings to utilitarian structures, our
sustainable, urbanism approach to traditional neighborhood development generates living
free from conventional ideas.
A home should respond to its particular place, enhance a site or neighborhood and be a
natural partner with the environment. We believe that public places, neighborhoods and
individual structures are the stage on which life of a community is expressed and that the
design of these places can have a strong effect on its growth.
Our single and multi -family residences enhance simple green building techniques while
still possessing all of the modem conveniences of today's home. Inspiration can be
found anywhere. For PaulPage Dwellings, LLC it is found in century -old buildings, farm
structures and even the southern dogtrot. After spending 28 years as a rice and soybean
farmer in eastern Arkansas, my strong interest in pragmatic solutions and appreciation of
modern design led to the creation of a urbanism, environmentally -friendly home design
trend that connects the old with the new. With these beliefs, PaulPage Dwellings, LLC
proposes to build a multi -family residence, consisting of five two-story adjoining town
homes around 1300 square feet with detached garages, interior courtyard and space for
outdoor living. This concept of "intown Living" will have a 25 foot setback on Rock
Street, 18 foot setback on 15t` Street, 33 foot setback to the rear alley entrance and a 10
foot setback that includes green space to the north of the property line. The building
materials will include: stucco, James Hardie siding products, low-e metal casing
windows and a distinctive flat -roof using membrane technology. These materials reflect
the revival of mid-20th century and a new optimism of the future of MacArthur Park
Historic District i.e. (apartments at 418-422 150' Street). Inside the town homes we will
continue to stress user-friendly green technologies like: CFL lighting, low -volatile
paints, European shower heads, self -programmable thermostats, lKEA kitchens and
scored concrete floors.
Our outside green space will include green fences for privacy at the rear of our garages, a
permeable parking pad (gravel), plantings along the west edge of rear alley, which will be
the entrance and exit. We also, will continue to work with Tree Streets to plant small
trees along the city right of way on Rock Street.
Our "Intown Living" hopes to capture and attract the hip -urban -entrepreneurial type
(Clinton Presidential Library, Heifer Project International) who will embrace this
architecture much like the pioneers before them who were inspired by Charles
Thompson's home designs of the past. We hope our homes will have the same timeless
quality, imagination and historic values. Thanks for your consideration.
PaulPage Dwellings, LLC
William Page Wilson
Legal Description: Lots 7, 8, 9 Block 49 Original City of Little Rock, Pulaski County