2400 Mass Ave is a 60 unit, passive house, multi-family residential and retail development in Cambridge, MA that carefully mitigates 4 unique frontages, while providing a public amenity to a sleepier area of the City.
The residential portion of the Project provides much needed housing to the City of Cambridge. It will provide a wide variety of dwelling unit types, with a focus on larger family sized units. Efforts have been made to provide as much outdoor space to the building’s occupants as possible. The Project’s unique, terraced massing helps mediate the scale of the building from the commercial edge of the site (Massachusetts Avenue) to the residential edge of the site (Cedar Street), while simultaneously providing large areas of outdoor roof space that far exceeds what is common for a development of this scale.
The retail portion is defined by a pedestrian corridor that cuts through the middle of the site. Formed by splitting the development into two buildings, this zone of publicly beneficial open space will provide a place on site for gathering, outdoor seating, and dining. The goal of this configuration is to create a retail destination that will draw more residents from the surrounding neighborhoods to an area of the city that is less dense with retail activity.
