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HOME VISIT #2 <br />Garage Apartment ADU <br />Denver, Colorado <br />Size: 360 square feet <br />A The apartment above the garage can be <br />reached from inside the garage or from an <br />exterior side entrance accessed from the yard it <br />shares with the primary residence. <br />HOME VISIT #3 <br />Basement ADU <br />Portland, Oregon <br />Size: 796 square feet <br />The transformation of this colorful <br />Victorian was both a preservation and <br />expansion project. <br />TEACHING MOMENT: "Here's a very <br />welcome breath of fresh air, especially in <br />the face of so much gentrification that is <br />going on in Portland!" declared Mark <br />Lakeman, principal of Communitecture, an <br />architectural, planning and design firm, <br />about the pictured remodel. Writing on <br />"I see our ADU as something very similar to a student loan," says <br />Mara Owen. "It's somethingyou invest in the future with. It was <br />cheaper than buying a house for Mom, and it lets her have <br />independence. It's great knowing we can check in on her whenever." <br />AH-HA MOMENT: Owen, her partner, Andrew, and their three <br />dogs were sharing a one -bedroom, one -bath house with her <br />mother, Diane. When Owen learned that ADUs were allowed in <br />the city, she decided the best way to get more space for her <br />small home's many residents would be to remove their "leaky and <br />defunct" garage and build a new two -car garage with an <br />apartment above it. <br />WISE ADVICE: "Get a really great builder and architect," says <br />Owen. "Interviewing architects was similar to a first date. It's not <br />just who you feel connected with. That's important, but get to <br />the values. It's a niche market, so see if you can find someone <br />who has built ADUs before, because ADUs are a little different" <br />FUTURE PLANS: The stairs to Diane's apartment are wide <br />enough for a stair lift, if it's ever needed. The roof was built at <br />the correct slope for the eventual installation of solar panels. <br />Design: Hive Architecture I Builder: Hive Architecture I Cost to build: $167,000 in <br />2016 1 Photo by Mara Owen I Article adapted from `ADU Case Studies" by Lina Menard <br />on AccessoryDwellings.org. Visit the website to read about and see photographs of <br />more ADU projects. <br />A By lifting the house and digging beneath it, designers, engineers and <br />builders turned a two-story, single-family home into a three-story, <br />multifamily residence. (The ADU's entrance is pictured on page 3.) <br />his company's website, he says the project provides a <br />lesson in how to "adapt and reuse our precious <br />historic houses so they can accommodate more <br />people while also providing more income to support <br />the existing home." <br />HOW'D THEY DO IT? To add a basement rental <br />unit, engineers lifted the house. The resulting ADU is <br />roughly four feet underground and four feet above. <br />THE ACHIEVEMENT: Adds Lakeman: "Unlike the <br />seemingly pervasive method of simply tearing down <br />existing buildings so that new, giant ones can be built, <br />this approach achieves upgrades in energy efficient <br />living places and adds density while retaining the <br />continuity of our beloved historical urban environment." <br />Design: Communitecture I Home Lift: Emmert International <br />Builder: Tom Champion I Cost to build: $725,000 in 2015 1 Photos by <br />Communitecture (before) and Chris Nascimento (after) <br />The ABCs of ADUs I A A RID 7 <br />