YWCA Family Village

Affordable Housing & Special Needs

Gold Nugget Merit Award (1998)

Fannie Mae Maxwell Award of Excellence (1998)

This building houses 20 women and their children that were formerly homeless. Each household has its own apartment for up to six months, until employment and housing are found. The building has a child care program for up to 60 children and adult counseling facilities. Pyatok Associates designed the building to feel like a lodge typical of the northwest region. The homelike atmosphere is intended to soften the impact of the stressful crisis facing the families. Each floor has extra wide corridors for indoor play with large windows facing south sunlight. These corridors open onto rear porch decks which connect at the second floor down into the rear play yard.

• Seattle, Washington (map)
• Affordable Housing & Special Needs
• 20 units
• 40,000 sf
• $2.1 million
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• Developed by YWCA of Seattle-King County
  
  
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