Cottage Courts Unlock Homes Without Sacrificing Nature
In this Sunday sketch, duplexes allow connection and transit on two difficult lots.
This project by Chelsea Leland imagines two deep lots as a cottage court community, supporting transit and neighborhood connectivity. Twenty stacked or side-by-side duplexes would allow the rest of the site to exist as green space.
For decades, we haven’t been able to build missing middle housing in most of America.
Students at Tom Barrie’s studio are preparing for a change.
Read more on pages 35-37 of NCSU College of Design’s Missing Middle Housing Report.



