Mixson Avenue
North Charleston, SC

On 40 acres of land in North Charleston, formerly used for military housing, George and Andrew have been commissioned to design a new neighborhood of several hundred houses.  The developer wants to build small affordable houses (600-1500 square feet) out of good materials, and very close together to encourage vibrant urban life.  George and Andrew decided to draw from both early American and Medieval European precedents, to achieve a streetscape saturated with diversity, interest, and practicality.  They started with sixteen house plans, which can be modified in terms of materials, porches, and carports, into over a hundred unique buildings.  They designed the street plan organically, laying down one house at a time wherever it seemed most practical and attractive, working around the existing trees, and always considering all previous work as existing conditions.  The result is a street plan that appears to have developed on its own, over time, without conscious design.