Carmen Villegas Apartments
New York County
Building Community and Resilience for Seniors in East Harlem
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Carmen Villegas Apartments
28 Stories
211 Affordable units
180,352 Total sq ft.
- New Construction
- Anticipated Completion: 2028
- Total project cost: $180,000,000
- Total project cost per sq. ft.: $998.05
- Award: $1,000,000
- Phius CORE Certification
- Enterprise Green Communities
- Disadvantaged Community Location
- NYS DEC Potential Environmental Justice Area Location
Project Description
Carmen Villegas Apartments (CVA) is a new 28-story, mixed-use development supplying 211 affordable senior apartments, ground floor retail, and a community facility space for LGBTQ+ seniors in a designated disadvantaged community within Manhattan’s East Harlem neighborhood. With a senior population top of mind, multiple high-performance and resiliency features will contribute to an exceptional reduction in total carbon emissions, leading to a comfortable and healthy living environment for its residents. The building will also provide a library, gym, laundry room, terrace, and ground floor courtyard – fostering community connectivity. CVA has ambitious goals to prove that all-electric ground source heat pumps, Passive House design, and prefabricated panel buildings are viable for multifamily new construction in New York City.
Project Status: Design Development
Market Sector: High-Rise Multifamily
Developed by: Ascendant Neighborhood Development Corp. (opens in new window) & Urban Builders Collaborative (opens in new window) & Xylem Project (opens in new window)
Designed by: Magnusson Architecture and Planning, P.C. (opens in new window)
Notable Technical Attributes
- High-performance envelope
- Triple-pane windows
- Heating/cooling/domestic hot water – ground source heat pumps (GSHP)
- Centralized energy recovery ventilation (ERV)
- Minimum Efficiency Reporting Value (MERV) 13 Filtration
- On-site building integrated solar photovoltaic (PV) – solar PV capacity 80kW
- Domestic hot water controls – leak detection monitoring in units and common areas
Resilience, Passive and Active Survivability
- An area of refuge will be located within the building for residents, staff, and members of the surrounding community.
- In emergencies, the building will have mechanical ventilation supplied to area(s) of refuge only
- Half of the corridor receptacles will be operational
- The telecom room receptacles will be operational
- The 6th floor community AC unit will be operational
- Elevator will be operational in area of refuge
- Semi-automatic ground environment air defense system (SAGE) HVAC system
- Water supply backup power
- Stormwater management
- Green roofs
Site Features
- Interior bike storage for 14 bikes
- Within ¼ mile of a bus stop
- Within ½ mile of other mass transit
Media
Fernando Villa and Sara Bayer on the Carmen Village Apartments
Carmen Villegas Apartments – RB24 Hour 2 With Sara Bayer
Energy Recovery Ventilation Should be Code – RB24 With Sara Bayer
The Buildings of Excellence Competition
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Designing and developing clean and resilient buildings that are good for both businesses and residents is at the core of this competition.
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