cooperative birmingham

A Pay-What-You-Can-Café, a social services center, a corner grocery, leasable business and retail spaces, and a wide variety of courtyard-centric condos, complete with affordable micro-units create a dynamic cooperative that leads the way for responsible development in once blighted but now up and coming downtown Birmingham, Alabama. The site of intervention is the old Board of Education  building located adjacent to Linn Park, a municipal park known for its transient and homeless populations. Cooperative Birmingham seeks, through all parts of its program and design, to mitigate the historic inequities distilled and spatialized in the nearby park.