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Woodworking Shop + Photo Booth: A New Reston Apartment Building To Offer Novel Amenities

  • February 10th 2021

by Nena Perry-Brown

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Faraday Park exterior rendering. Click to enlarge.

While UrbanTurf is no stranger to live/work housing units, an upcoming Reston development will have amenities well-suited for people who may want to work at more than just a desk. 

Faraday Park, a 400-unit development that just recently started pre-leasing, will offer more novel amenities than the standard apartment building, including a maker's workshop and a photo studio. 

The workshop will be about 300 square feet and will contain a communal workbench and hand tools for woodworking and such. The photo studio will be a light box-style office-sized room inside the workshop.

Rendering of workshop. Click to enlarge.

"We put a ton of intention into how we designed the space so that our residents could have some of the creature comforts that traditional apartments tend to lack, such as space for a workshop," Chris Oursler, development director at Rooney Properties, told UrbanTurf. Oursler said that the workshop and photo studio can be used by appointment for now. 

The property will also have less-rare amenities like co-working space with private offices, chef's kitchens, a communal dining room, a bike repair area and a pet spa. Faraday Park will start delivering in March. Rooney Properties and Bozzuto are the developers and MV+A Architects is the designer.

This article originally published at https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/woodworking-photo-booth-a-new-reston-apartment-building/17869.

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