CEDAR CROSSING, SEATTLE, WA, USA_2022 Client: Bellwether Housing & Mercy Housing NW Size: $61 Million, 265,417 ft2 Role: Project Manager, Sector Leader DESCRIPTION: A 250 unit transit-oriented development at 6600 Roosevelt in Seattle, a site adjacent to the future Roosevelt Link Light Rail Station. Sound Transit awarded a nonprofit joint develpment team to progress a mixed-used TOD as showcased in a preliminary design process. This represents a significant step forward in achieving Seattle’s Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda (HALA) goals for more afforadble family–sized apartment units, which lead the Office of Housing to commit its largest source of 2017 funding to this development that will serve individuals and families making between 30-60% AMI. Outside of much needed housing, Cedar Crossing will provide an early learning center, more than 12,000 sf of retail, and a thru-block connnector to a future neighborhood greenway and access to a new light rail station.
ARCHITECT OF RECORD: VIA Architecture
PORTFOLIO OF: Charles M. Romero, AIA, NCARB
THE POSTMARK, SHORELINE, WA, USA_2020 Client: The Wolff Company Size: $33 Million, 325,894 ft2 Role: Project Manager DESCRIPTION: The proposed is a market-rate multi-family development on a 1.85 acre site that served as a USPS office facility before demolition. The building program consists of 243 units with a mix of studios, 1-bedroom, 2-bedroom, and 3-bedroom units within two L-Shaped buildings of wood construction over a concrete podium with below grade parking. The residential buildings enclose a dedicated resident open space, and one-story clubhouse filled with amenity program. The building is proposing pre-fabricated, as well as CLT construction.
ARCHITECT OF RECORD: KATERRA/VIA Architecture
PORTFOLIO OF: Charles M. Romero, AIA, NCARB
REVEL ISSAQUAH, ISSAQUAH, WA, USA_2019 Client: The Wolff Company Size: $30.8 Million, 187,645 ft2 Role: Project Manager DESCRIPTION: With 146 units, this proposed senior housing development on a six-acre site is planned to connect to a neighboring multi-family development of nearly 400 units using a pedestrian bridge over Schneider Creek. The proposed building will contain extensive resident amenities including an indoor pool, dining hall, commercial kitchen, salon, as well as activity and fitness ares. The building is composed of four stories of wood construction over one story of concrete podium, and surrounded by extensive open space.
ARCHITECT OF RECORD: VIA Architecture
PORTFOLIO OF: Charles M. Romero, AIA, NCARB
CITYLINE II, SEATTLE, WA, USA_2018 Client: The Wolff Company Size: $27 Million, 184,075 ft2 Role: Project Manager DESCRIPTION: This 67,950 sf transit-oriented site will consist of 155 market rate apartments and walk-up style townhouses in a two building configuration of wood framed construction over concrete podium for 126 parking stalls. The building configuration creates a strong through-block pedestrian connection that will link Phase II to the neighboring Phase I apartment buildings, and out to a very active right-of-way that connects residents to extensive shopping and transit. This development will include a 10kW PV system, and amenities.
ARCHITECT OF RECORD: VIA Architecture
PORTFOLIO OF: Charles M. Romero, AIA, NCARB
BB6 (Bell, Battery, & 6th), SEATTLE, WA, USA_2016 Client: HB Management Size: $278 Million, 921,267 ft2 Role: Project Architect, Deputy PM DESCRIPTION: The proposed 38,944 sf half block site was a planned mixed use development at 2326 6th Avenue, which would require the demolition of an existing two story Antioch University building and surface lot. The development featured two 41 story residential towers with 1,016 residential market-rate units, nearly 16,000 sf of commercial uses and over 600 below-grade parking stalls. An addendum to the downtown height and density changes EIS was prepared. The objective was to successfully navigate through the entitlements process.
ARCHITECT OF RECORD: VIA Architecture
PORTFOLIO OF: Charles M. Romero, AIA, NCARB
HYATT HOUSE SEATTLE/DOWNTOWN | SEATTLE, WA, USA | 2015 Client: Kauri Investments Ltd. Size: $23.5 Million, 115,048 ft2 Role: Staff Architect, Construction Administrator DESCRIPTION: Once a surface lot this triangulated site has become a recent fixture in the heart of Seattle’s Urban Core with more than 172 units allocated for a mix of hotel room keys, and apartment style living. This eight-story building was constructed using pre-fabricated systems to help streamline the construction schedule, maximize thermal performance, and avoid the use of scaffolding on a site restricted by the Monorail that runs along 5th Avenue North.
ARCHITECT OF RECORD: Johnson Braund Inc.
PORTFOLIO OF: Charles M. Romero, RA, NCARB
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TUKWILA VILLAGE PHASE II BUILDING E | TUKWILA, WA, USA | 2012 Client: Senior Housing Assistance Group (SHAG) Size: price pending, 149,175 ft2 Role: PM, Project Architect, C.A. DESCRIPTION: As the fourth building in a three phased development plan, Building E fronts South 144th Street and is situated directly across from the landscape plaza to the north. This five-story mixed-use building features 125 affordable senior apartments with a portion of the street level uses dedicated to commercial tenant space and a police resource center. This building will help activate a development shared in part by a new public library, a centralized landscape plaza, a community commons, and additional residential units in Buildings A, B, and D.
ARCHITECT OF RECORD: Johnson Braund Inc.
PORTFOLIO OF: Charles M. Romero, RA, NCARB
BUILDING B PHASE III
BUILDING E PHASE II
COMMONS BUILDING A PHASE I
KCLS LIBRARY
BUILDING D
TUKWILA VILLAGE PHASE II BUILDING D | TUKWILA, WA, USA | 2012 Client: Senior Housing Assistance Group (SHAG) Size: price pending, 96,469 ft2 Role: PM, Project Architect, C.A. DESCRIPTION: As the third building in a three phased development plan, Building D fronts a stretch of land along Tukwila International Boulevard south of South 144th Street. This six-story mixed-use building features 68 affordable senior apartments with the first and mezzanine levels designated as the new headquarters for SHAG. This building will help activate a development shared in part by a new public library, a centralized landscape plaza, a community commons, and additional residential units in Buildings A, B, and E.
ARCHITECT OF RECORD: Johnson Braund Inc.
PORTFOLIO OF: Charles M. Romero, RA, NCARB
BUILDING B PHASE III
COMMONS BUILDING A
BUILDING E PHASE II
KCLS LIBRARY
BUILDING D PHASE II
TUKWILA VILLAGE PHASE I BUILDING A | TUKWILA, WA, USA | 2012 Client: Senior Housing Assistance Group (SHAG) Size: price pending, 119,824 ft2 Role: PM, Project Architect, C.A. DESCRIPTION: As the first building in a three phased development plan, Building A fronts a stretch of land along Tukwila International Boulevard north of South 144th Street. This six-story mixed-use building features 84 market rate apartments along with a large portion of the street level uses dedicated to commercial tenant space; that will help activate a development shared in part by a new public library, a centralized landscape plaza, a community commons, and additional residential units in Buildings B, D, and E.
ARCHITECT OF RECORD: Johnson Braund Inc.
PORTFOLIO OF: Charles M. Romero, RA, NCARB
KING WORLD TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS | JIAXING, CHINA | 2012 Client: Shanghai New Huanpu Real Estate Co.,Ltd 上海新黄浦置业股份有限公司 Size: ¥500 Million, 168,659 m2 Role: Co-Manager & Design Lead DESCRIPTION: Designed with a retail gallery flanking the east, and outlined by a lake to the west, this 83,687 m2 site packs a broad range of program into an efficient space. An underground parking garage allows the site to establish extensive landscape vistas, and plazas that afford occupants areas for leisure, and a softer image that contrast and support the hi-tech building aesthetics that surround. A total of (30) buildings occupy this site and consist of an exhibition building, low-rise business villas, mid-rise R&D stations, a high-rise office building, high-rise SOHO apartment & office towers, and a 100m high-rise hotel.
ARCHITECT OF RECORD: Pacific Studio Architecture LLC
PORTFOLIO OF: Charles M. Romero, RA, NCARB
BAIXIA HIGH-TECH PARK | NANJING, CHINA | 2012 Client: Nanjing Investment & Development Co.,Ltd. 南京下产业园区投资发展有限责任公司 Size: undetermined, 306,180 m2 Role: Co-Manager & Design Lead DESCRIPTION: This once divided site on two plots totaling 55,516 m2 is held together by a combination of material palette, building program, and landscape elements. The design allows the possibility for venture, research, and entrepreneurial opportunities to intersect. The exhibit and conference center, mid-rise R&D clusters, high-rise; incubator towers, business hotel, and office tower are connected by service podiums and landscape berms that were initiated to balance nature with technology.
ARCHITECT OF RECORD: Pacific Studio Architecture LLC
PORTFOLIO OF: Charles M. Romero, RA, NCARB
RESIDENCES AT FRANKLIN PARK | DENVER, CO, USA | 2011 Client: Central States Development Size: $12.5 million, 67,719 ft2 Role: Staff Architect, Co-Designer, C.A. DESCRIPTION: This 92 unit affordable senior living high-rise complex built in 1972 with the support of LIHTC’s, and HUD funds was able to updated the building skin and envelope, modify interiors, and placed balconies as part of the renovation process. The original building skin left in place, and clad over avoided landfill processing. ARCHITECT OF RECORD: EJ Architecture PLLC
PORTFOLIO OF: Charles M. Romero, RA, NCARB
URBAN PEAK “THE SPOT” | DENVER, CO, USA | 2011 Client: Urban Peak Size: $1.2 million (phase I), 3,213 ft2 Role: PM, Project Architect, C.A. DESCRIPTION: Once the Film Exchange Building for Paramount Pictures Distribution Corporation, this 1936 brick building in downtown Denver has been the home to Urban Peak a 501c3 organized to help homeless and at risk youth. This renovation was designed to expand necessary services for these youth by providing a commercial kitchen, laundry room, shower rooms, clinic room, and addition services in the first of three phases.
ARCHITECT OF RECORD: Odell Architects PC
PORTFOLIO OF: Charles M. Romero, RA, NCARB
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Subsequent to the Phase I Maplewood Apartment Renovation, this new clubhouse as part of Phase II development was constructed to accommodate permanent leasing offices, meeting rooms, and a community center for the existing apartment complex. The project employs a 4-3-5 Corvid Radiant Wall configuration with an operating temperature of 70°f and a R-value of 34.66. Additional sustainable features include: radiant floors, occupancy sensors, structural insulated panels (SIP’s) on the roof, energy recovery ventilation (ERV), natural daylighting that includes clerestory & borrowed interior light, insulated windows, solar thermal panels for heat supply & domestic water, and a 50-panel (10kW) photovoltaic roof system.
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MAPLEWOOD CLUBHOUSE | LAKEWOOD, CO, USA | 2011 Client: Metro West Housing Solutions Size: withheld, 2,600 ft2 Role: PM, Project Architect, Construction Administrator
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ARCHITECT OF RECORD: Odell Architects PC
PORTFOLIO OF: Charles M. Romero, RA, NCARB
HEAD START CHILD CARE CENTER | LAKEWOOD, CO, USA | 2010 Client: City of Lakewood Cost: $1.1 million, 3,700 ft2 Role: Job Captain, Graphics, Wall Analysis DESCRIPTION: As a certified LEED building this early childhood development center is a first of its kind to implement an intelligent wall system. The Corvid Radiant Wall is a 4-3-5 inch layered wall system that employs radiant tubes that allow thermal rates to remain at a consistent temperature year-round for efficiency and comfort. Additional sustainable features include; radiant floors, daylighting, and insulated windows. The use of geometry in elements like windows, canopies, and benches in conjunction with natural daylighting and a vibrant use of colors help encourage education, humanize the building scale, and generate an energetic atmosphere for students.
ARCHITECT OF RECORD: Odell Architects PC
PORTFOLIO OF: Charles M. Romero, RA, NCARB
lag bolt connection (3) 3/4” x 2 1/2” hex bolts at single member condition
(2) 2 x 4’s certified and sustainably harvested wood; painted black (typical)
translucent colored 1/2” thick recycled ECO sheet (1) 2 x 4 connected with Simpson Strong-Tie
(1) 2 x 4 to be thru-bolted to adjacent panel 2 x 4
lag bolt connection (2) 3/4” x 3 1/2” hex bolts at double stud condition
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RMC PLAYHOUSE | DENVER, CO, USA | 2008 Client: Rocky Mountain Communities Size: unbuilt, 123 Role: Co-Designer, Graphics
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DESCRIPTION: A playhouse design for Rocky Mountain Communities with intentions to be raffled off at the Taste of Colorado a local food and music festival located in Denver’s Civic Center Park. The concept was to create a kit-o-parts that could be assembled, dismantled and reconfigured for a dynamic playtime experience.
PORTFOLIO OF: Charles M. Romero, RA, NCARB
TERRACES ON PENNSYLVANIA | ENGLEWOOD, CO, USA | 2007 Client: Englewood Housing Authority Cost: $7.3 million, 56,429 ft2 Role: Job Captain, Graphics, PV Analysis, C.A. DESCRIPTION: This was an urban infill site selected to reactivate a once abandoned single family lot with 62 units of affordable senior housing. Living units were placed above podium parking to make the best use of the available site, while reducing potential for head island effect.
3590 south pennsylvania street guest parking
community garden
east jefferson avenue
ARCHITECT OF RECORD: Odell Architects PC
PORTFOLIO OF: Charles M. Romero, RA, NCARB
DUN LAOGHAIRE LIBRARY & CULTURAL CENTRE | DUN LAOGHAIRE, IRELAND | 2007 Client: Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Size: â‚Ź35.0 Million (unbuilt), 7,688 m2 Role: Co-Designer, Graphics
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11 of this centre was to recapture the heart of this The design intent 10 community, by9 creating a destination that would bring people together to 8experience the library in as much as each other. Plush 2nd level_pedestrian strip landscaped areas, semi-enclosed spaces, and secluded fragments C 3 c vertical circulation (main) provide a variety of ways for occupants to explore their surround4 5 3 translators ENTRY 6 cafe ings. Three giant sail45 like facades recalling the harbor, and history entry porter 6 bookstore of this7 seaport as they peal away from the building creating different 7 readers assistance 8 clock display layers of visual exposure, texture, and depth from the lawn below. 9 exhibition space 10 poetry Wind turbines are used between the sails to capture prominent 11 art gallery 12 multicultural area windward movements.
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library headquarters science children & half size music & dvd’s
artist residence administrative offices local history europe & other regions
PORTFOLIO OF: Charles M. Romero, RA, NCARB
DOUGLAS COUNTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | LITTLETON, CO, USA | 2006 Client: Douglas County School District Size: $12.1 million, 72,000 ft2 Role: Design Intern, Project Support, Graphics DESCRIPTION: A sustainably designed school prototype in the first of three proposed site layouts. Each progression of the prototype allows opportunities to improve building systems and efficiencies, while narrowing building budgets. Daylit classrooms, colorful interior and exterior material palettes, and playful window articulation gives each school a motivating atmosphere.
ARCHITECT OF RECORD: Hutton Ford Architects PC
PORTFOLIO OF: Charles M. Romero, RA, NCARB