Two months after breaking ground, if that’s even the right term, the District’s first residential building made entirely out of the giant metal boxes is finished in Brookland.
Designed by Travis Price Architects, the three-story, four apartment unit development at 3305 Seventh St. NE was envisioned as a“new, bold, ecological, recyclable kit of parts housing module, and to help make use of one of America’s biggest problems: No exports of goods — 700,000 (and counting) sea containers left in our sea ports.”
“It was just building with steel, glass and wood,” Price told me. “That’s what people are paying high numbers for, and we’re making it affordable for everybody.”
While the units are supposedly being rented for less than Class A rates, the asking prices were not made available.
Matthew Grace and Sean Joiner, the team behind the project, are Catholic University graduates, hence the project’s title: SeaUA. We first caught wind of the project in June, when Brookland Equity Group LLC was issued demolition and foundation permits for this unprecedented D.C. effort.
Have a look at images of the completed development, in the gallery.
The first residents were scheduled to move in Sunday.
source: Washington Business Journal
