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Bruce Haglund
School of Architecture, University of Idaho

Comprehensive Architectural Design Studio
Senior Studio

Affordable Housing: Small Lots, Small Enclosures

Affordable Housing Small Lots Small Enclosures

Design Performance Objective

High Density/Small Lot Masterplanning
The masterplan shows how in-fill housing can densify a typical mid-twentieth century single family occupancy residential block; and by extention, how it can transform the neighboorhood.

Student: Clayton Harrison

Fall 2007 Integrated Habitats Studio

Program Statement
Design small enclosures that reduce both first and operational costs. Design for increased density and small lot sizes.

This project responds to NAAB Student Performance Criteria

#17: Site Conditions
Ability to respond to natural and built site characteristics in the development of a program and the design of a project

#19: Environmental Systems
Understanding of the basic principles and appropriate application and performance of environmental systems, including acoustical, lighting, and climate modification systems, and energy use, integrated with the building envelope

#21: Building Envelope Systems
Understanding of the basic principles and appropriate application and performance of building envelope materials and assemblies

#28: Comprehensive Design
Ability to produce a comprehensive architectural project based on a building program and site that includes development of programmed spaces demonstrating an understanding of structural and environmental systems, building envelope systems, life-safety provisions, wall sections and building assemblies and the principles of sustainability

Investigative Strategy

Develop a master plan that doubles the density of an existing neighborhood while holding individual floor plans to 800 sq.ft. or less. Clayton Harrison’s master plan shows fifteen new units, four with small commercial or workplaces on the ground floor, arranged as in-fill units along the redesigned alley of an existing urban single-family occupancy neighborhood.

Evaluation Process

Evaluation Process. Design typical units to prove livability and rate the plan with the SBSE Checklist for Regenerative Design and Construction.

Evaluative Criteria

Compare before and after densities and check building size. Evaluate livability and sustainability with the SBSE checklist.

Information about the Project and Studio

• course outline

• project outline

Cautions - Possible Confusions

Forming a local improvement zone can be a way of avoiding the restrictions caused by simply subdividing existing lots.

Range of Applicability in terms of CLIMATE

ALL

Range of Applicability in terms of TYPE

This type of approach is most suited to low to medium density housing.

Reference Material

SBSE Checklist for Regenerative Design and Construction on the SBSE web <http://www.sbse.org/resources/>
Integrating Habitats web <http://www.integratinghabitats.org/>

Duration of Exercise

This work was presented at the culmination of an eight-week comprehensive design phase.

Degree of Difficulty / Previous Knowledge Required

This is work assigned to a graduate student in his penultimate studio taken after all of the basic technical courses on structures and environmental systems.