Citrine Apartments Multi-family Residential Project

As part of an accompanying suites hotel architecture project, and as one of the contingencies for the approval of Hotel Trio provided by the California entitlement process, AXIS/GFA was retained to oversee the architectural design of the Citrine Apartments: a multi-family housing development located in Healdsburg, California. The housing development incorporates 37 dwellings in a modern four-story building with a portion of the units set aside for low income residents. It was designed to blend harmoniously with the nearby Hotel Trio, an elegantly rustic mid-range hotel with the look and feel of a boutique establishment.

The complex helps address Healdsburg’s increasing need for affordable housing, while the Hotel Trio accommodates tourism growth in the area. Where Hotel Trio and the Citrine Apartments differ in materials and use they make up for in structural harmony. The Citrine Apartments are an L shape and the Hotel Trio a U shape, with the L intruding into the U. The result is two buildings that appear to complete each other, despite the areas in which they are in contrast.

The multi-family Citrine Apartments was awarded a Gold Nugget Grand Award by the panel at the 2019 Pacific Coast Builders Conference as 2019’s “Best Affordable Housing Community 30-60 DU/Acre.”