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TINY HOME COMMUNITY FOR THE HOMELESS
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TINY HOME COMMUNITY FOR THE HOMELESS
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STATUS
Concept
SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
BUDGET
$50K - 100K
Members of the AIA North Carolina Activate14 committee and the Raleigh/Wake Partnership to End and Prevent Homelessness invited architects and designers to share their ideas on a new typology for urban housing: a twelve unit community of tiny homes to help address the problem of homelessness in urban centers. The site is comprised of 4 vacant lots owned by the City of Raleigh, just outside Historic Boylan Heights in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
This ideas competition was generated by the presence of homelessness. There is a pressing need in cities like Raleigh for affordable micro-dwellings to serve people without a stable dwelling place. Tiny home communities cannot eliminate poverty or homelessness, but they can create a more lively, caring, and diverse city. The goal was to generate innovative micro-housing communities that can repair and enliven the social fabric and help people transition out of homelessness.
Short description of the winning entry
A community that opens itself to the nearby neighbourhood and supports a connection to the urban fabric.
The drawing of a passage that goes throughout the site, passing through the common building and by the orchards/allotments, in combination with the orientation of the units, which face the street, imply an openness to the city. The passage and the common building articulate in a way that invites the residents into spending time in the common room, co-organise social activities.At the same time, the commons core is inward looking, in order to balance exposure to the public eye and protect its residents from being seen as an 'institutionalized' population, since it is orientated in a way that it is turning its back to the street.
The common building is located in the centre of this passage articulating vertically and which forms four equal but distinct neighborhoods.
The units are arranged in such a way that forms a miniature model of the nearby Boylan Heights so that the residents are encouraged to mingle with the local population and have a social life that goes beyond the ‘barrier’ of their own community.
The unit is an interpretation of the traditional American house that provides a sitting-sleeping and eating area and a water closet. There is a mezzanine which offers extra space and height forming either an attic or a loft and which could be used as an alternative sleeping area. An outdoor but strictly defined covered –roofed area (canopy) merges with a porch, threshold and terrace into one transitional space. This is a significant element of the house as it enlarges the space and creates the entrance.
A prefabricated tiny house, using a modular structure, a shell, an 'exoskeleton', which helps to protect its core and blend with the surroundings. It’s a self-contained unit that is assembled on site and consists by a soft core – a common wooden frame structure that unfolds to a house- and an exoskeleton. The exoskeleton consists of a metal base (two parts) and two parallel side solid gabions filled with crushed stone or demolition materials (recycle). The gabions are connected to each other and with the core by steel merchant bars.
The gabions are to be delivered empty at the site and be filled in situ.The future residents can participate in the process feeling engaged.
Despite their prefabricated nature, the constructions manage to integrate, using gabions filled with materials located around the area, they are to be placed on.
The load bearing structure of the unit is a modular structure which can be developed in different forms to a larger, one storey common building that includes a kitchen, a common area, a study, locker rooms and bathrooms.
All the buildings of the community are designed according to bioclimatic architectural principles, energy saving, low cost and can be stored, relocate, evolve, transform so that they decrease their energy footprint to almost zero and yet so rigid and extrovert that provide their residents a sense of importance and home.
This ideas competition was generated by the presence of homelessness. There is a pressing need in cities like Raleigh for affordable micro-dwellings to serve people without a stable dwelling place. Tiny home communities cannot eliminate poverty or homelessness, but they can create a more lively, caring, and diverse city. The goal was to generate innovative micro-housing communities that can repair and enliven the social fabric and help people transition out of homelessness.
Short description of the winning entry
A community that opens itself to the nearby neighbourhood and supports a connection to the urban fabric.
The drawing of a passage that goes throughout the site, passing through the common building and by the orchards/allotments, in combination with the orientation of the units, which face the street, imply an openness to the city. The passage and the common building articulate in a way that invites the residents into spending time in the common room, co-organise social activities.At the same time, the commons core is inward looking, in order to balance exposure to the public eye and protect its residents from being seen as an 'institutionalized' population, since it is orientated in a way that it is turning its back to the street.
The common building is located in the centre of this passage articulating vertically and which forms four equal but distinct neighborhoods.
The units are arranged in such a way that forms a miniature model of the nearby Boylan Heights so that the residents are encouraged to mingle with the local population and have a social life that goes beyond the ‘barrier’ of their own community.
The unit is an interpretation of the traditional American house that provides a sitting-sleeping and eating area and a water closet. There is a mezzanine which offers extra space and height forming either an attic or a loft and which could be used as an alternative sleeping area. An outdoor but strictly defined covered –roofed area (canopy) merges with a porch, threshold and terrace into one transitional space. This is a significant element of the house as it enlarges the space and creates the entrance.
A prefabricated tiny house, using a modular structure, a shell, an 'exoskeleton', which helps to protect its core and blend with the surroundings. It’s a self-contained unit that is assembled on site and consists by a soft core – a common wooden frame structure that unfolds to a house- and an exoskeleton. The exoskeleton consists of a metal base (two parts) and two parallel side solid gabions filled with crushed stone or demolition materials (recycle). The gabions are connected to each other and with the core by steel merchant bars.
The gabions are to be delivered empty at the site and be filled in situ.The future residents can participate in the process feeling engaged.
Despite their prefabricated nature, the constructions manage to integrate, using gabions filled with materials located around the area, they are to be placed on.
The load bearing structure of the unit is a modular structure which can be developed in different forms to a larger, one storey common building that includes a kitchen, a common area, a study, locker rooms and bathrooms.
All the buildings of the community are designed according to bioclimatic architectural principles, energy saving, low cost and can be stored, relocate, evolve, transform so that they decrease their energy footprint to almost zero and yet so rigid and extrovert that provide their residents a sense of importance and home.
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