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Site
A small town in the Salinas Valley.
Program
Provide affordable housing ideas, addressing issues
ranging from the regional to the construction
detail.
Exploration
How can social policy provide for permanent affordability?
How can we offer quality architecture to lower
income families and farmworkers while keeping
initial costs low? How can we preserve the character
of a small Salinas Valley town while providing
for the inevitable increases in density accompanied
by California's impending population boom? How
can we extend scarce water supplies to serve the
new population without building more dams?
Solution
The competition was to show concepts for housing.
Our site plan and the mix of units / retail /
open space are just one application of the core
ideas below. Read the competition
entry text to learn more about the regional,
sustainability, and economic issues involved with
this project.
Sharing:
We provide smaller, privately owned units that
back up onto a series of large, open community
courtyards. Around the same courtyard, there are
also larger houses with small private yards and
decks. Shared amenities include a tool library,
garden plots with composting, a children's play
area, and commercial buildings with the possibility
of a daycare center.
Flexibility:
The smaller residential units are designed free-standing,
but with zero-lot-line zoning. We have provided
the initial structure required to either build
out toward the next house or add a second story.
The larger houses are designed to house many single
adults, a couple of families, one very large family,
or assisted seniors living together.
Competition
Team
John Klopf, Lisa Kramer, Lavina Liburd, Marian
Ring
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