Designed as an inclusive housing community, this development brings together residents of varying incomes and abilities, offering healthy, high-performance homes where design quality, resilience, and social equity are foundational, not optional. The project demonstrates that equitable, thoughtful design can shape not only buildings, but a unified and supportive community.

On a long, narrow site in Farmington, Connecticut wedged between a wetland and the I-84 connector, buffered by mature vegetation and new landscape design, a new kind of neighborhood took root. South Road emerged from a bold vision shared by a woman-led development team and a woman-led architecture firm: to create housing where beauty, equity, and performance are non-negotiable, and shared by all.

This 65-unit community brings together working families, essential healthcare employees, and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in a setting that prioritizes inclusion. One-quarter of the units were designed in partnership with FAVARH, whose wish list shaped a thoughtful blend of accessibility, sensory comfort, and independence that surpasses Universal Design standards. These residents had lived in other buildings by the same developer, but never in a place designed specifically for them.