Affordable Housing Study_Submission 2

Rapid Solution, Flourishing Future.

A new model for rapid-deployment emergency housing that produces flourishing communities and long-term resilience.

Stakeholders

FEMA Officials AmeriCorps Volunteers

AmeriCorps Volunteers

City Officials Local Emergency Aid and Humanitarian Organizations Timeline

Site Selection Site Prep Construction of Structural Framework Shipment and Construction of Prefab Emergency Housing Units Establishment of Triage Center Arrival of Climate Refugees

Clerestory and skylight to ensure natural light into deeper space.

Solar roof to offset energy costs.

Type A: Rapid-Deployment Emergency Housing 2x 4

2x 10’x30’ CLT Floor Panels

Pre-Fabricated wet wall with appliances for rapid construction.

Flexible living space with Murphy Bed Pre-Fabricated wood stud walls with high R-value and window location flexibility

The Problem

The frequency and intensity of climate related disasters is rapidly increasing due to the global impacts of Climate Change. In the USA, these impacts are heavily felt in the west and along the coasts of the country. Can the need for safe, affordable housing start to be addressed in areas where climate risk is the lowest?

Climate Risk

Housing Affordability

Climate Risk

Housing Instability

Climate Risk by Median Income

The current housing crisis is putting pressure on millions of Americans to find affordable, safe, and healthy housing. A main driver of thisa lack of “missing middle” housing in urban areas.

Affordability can start to emerge as areas of urban decay are infilled with affordable, well designed options.

The Solution

A Tale of Two Families

Housing Vacancy Rates 2020

A purposeful mission to design for long-term usage, to address issues of urban blight, and to create affordable ‘Missing-middle’ housing.

A flexible, modular unit design that shifts to accommodate unique site, scale, climate, and social factors.

Climate Migrants

Locals

Due to the pressure of coastal sea rise and hurricanes, this family is migrating to the next climate safe city on their route, Atlanta.

Buying and renting prices are jumping up more and more every year for this Atlanta family. They are looking to find a safe, affordability community to move to.

Cost of Living Index 2020

Rapid-Deployment of Emergency Housing

Rapid unit is ready for permanence with balcony, louvers, and double roof.

Structural frame is constructed of 40’x11’ CLT floor panels, CLT columns, and beams.

Area of Low Climate Risk, Low Cost of Living, and High Vacancy Climate Damage as % GOP Combined Overlay of Climate Risks

Property Below High Tide

Atlanta, GA

Locations of Low Climate Risk Cities like Atlanta provide fewer climate risks, lower costs of living, and excesses of vacant land, making them ideal places to relocate in the wake of climate change related displacement.

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1 CLT frame and pre-fabricated emergency units are rapidly deployed.

Housing for Demolition

Commercial Buildings

Existing Housing

Project Location

Once the site is chosen, the streets are assessed to determine which has the most potential for commercial and retail space. This location is then targeted for the Rapid-Deployment Emergency Housing. Why? Because ground level underneath the CLT frame holding up these units is serving dual purpose; in weeks

one through four it is space for storage and cars, then by the end of the project at month 8-12, this space is transformed into rentable commercial space.

While the emergency housing is being built and people are moving in, a section of the

triage space for FEMA, city officials, Community leaders, residents, and climate migrants to meet. This planning center is crucial in ensuring the next 2-6 months of permanent housing construction meets the needs of all stakeholders in order to build community resilience.

Historic First St. Mark African Methodist Church

2 Fire Risk per Year

Phase 1

A plan of action that connects government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and community stakeholders to accomplish shared goals.

Studio Micro-housing Units Maximum Occupancy

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Pre-Fab units are craned in. Migrants are provided storage pods and ground level space for their cars.

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Solar roof and shading louvers are rapidly installed. Emergency Housing is now at the quality of permanence.

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Polycarbonate walls installed for temporary triage design and planning office.

Project triage space and fully developed commercial space below Emergency Housing

Existing Commercial Building - The Yellow Store

Local Planners and Community Leaders Local Residents

Local Residents AmeriCorps Volunteers Habitat for Humanity Local Architects

Long Term Planning Study Town Hall Meetings with Old and New Residents Demolition of Blighted Properties Design Process and Efficiency Analysis Begins for Permanent Housing Construction of Permanent Housing Climate Refugees Move Into Permanent Housing Emergency Housing is Converted to Micro-Housing and Commercial Office Spaces

Iteration 3

Window locations are chosen from cove. tool daylighting analysis.

Additional windows on the north and south to daylight kitchen and living space.

Iteration 1 Basic window options with minimal south facing openings.

Type C: Large Permanent Housing

Daylighting

sDA and EUI

After the initial analysis is done in the Drawing.

Tool, the final wall options are modeled in the chosen design software. Roof, stairs, shading devices, etc. are modeled and the entire design is re-uploaded to Cove.Tool for the final analysis.

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Bedrooms Bathrooms Maximum Occupancy

Iteration 2 Additional windows on the east and south face to daylight bedrooms better.

4x 10’x30’ CLT Floor Panels

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Phase 2

Once climate migrants are housed and safe, the focus of the proposal shifts to creating a community development plan that focuses on long-term resilience and symbiosis between old and new residents. Initial planning meetings leverage recommendations of city planners, local architects, local residents, and new

Permanent Housing and Community Development

residents. Flexible 1-bedroom and 2-bedroom units are arranged on the site in a way that accommodates unique site, scale, climate, and social factors, and mimics the existing scale of single family ome and small apartment buildings while nearly tripling the density. Using predecided unit plans, the local architect uses

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Re-Upload

Top Floor

2x 2x 4

Floor Plan

sDA and EUI

Top Floor

Pre-Fab Walls

Daylighting

Bottom Floor

3x 10’x30’ CLT Floor Panels

Floor Plan

Top Floor

Bedrooms Bathrooms Maximum Occupancy

Cove.Tool and the drawing.tool were to develop site-specific orientation and window placement for the pre-designed unit plans across all permanent housing developments, from the smaller duplex to the larger multifamily sites.

Bottom Floor

1x 1x 2

Cove.Tool: Maximizing Design Efficiency

Bottom Floor

Type B: Small Permanent Housing

the Drawing.Tool to rapidly prototype different orientations and window sizes for optimal daylighting and energy usage. Site analysis and design can be completed in a few months time, giving residents agency in deciding their location, views, and specific unit conditions and customizations. Then construction of the

CLT frame, pre-fabricated walls, and solar roof system can begin. The flexibility of the 1- and 2-bedroom unit types accommodates the need for “missing middle” housing that minimizes the effects of gentrification-initiated price rise in the community.

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Final Output Optimal sunlight for solar panel placement

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As the construction completes, families are moved out of the rapid-housing units and into their new permanent homes. In contrast with the wasteful decay of FEMA trailer rapid housing, the project’s rapid-housing units are now able to be converted into affordable studio apartments for rent. The previously open-air space

beneath these units can now be converted into commercial space, such as a small business, office space, or restaurants. Finally, the site is regreened and raingardens are placed along the areas of watershed in order to prevent future flooding and create a community amenity.

The completed project converts an urgent deployment of refugee housing into a mixed-use, water and energy resilient, connected community of stakeholders, both old and new.

Level 2

Level 2

Existing Commercial

Cameron Madison Alexander Blvd NW

Level 1

New Affordable 9-Unit Multifamily 5x 4x 28

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Level 1

Two Bed Units One Bed Units Max Occupancy

Existing Residential

Level 1

New Affordable Duplex 2x 8

Two Bed Units Max Occupancy

Existing Residential

Units contains a dedicated “green core”. These cores bring daylighting and passive ventilation into each unit, provide opportunities to grow plants, allow secure and private ways of bringing the outdoor spaces in, and create a unique amenity that isn’t typically associated with affordable housing.

Horizontal and vertical circulation for the mutiunit buildings are located on the south side, providing deep sun shading, and allowing the north faces of each building to contain the majority of the project’s windows. Unit plans are designed to be flexible enough to accommodate this environmental strategy without impacting

The design utilizes a double roof strategy to facilitate airflow between the shade structure and a heavily-insulated flat roof built into each unit. From our iteration in the cove.tool, we found that this significantly lowered EUI compared to conventional pitched roofs.

Level 2

New Affordable 10-Unit Multifamily 5x 5x 30

Nonstructural louvers throughout the site are reclaimed from partially torn down, condemned, or burned houses that surround the area— many of which are full of a high quantity of like-new lumber that is typically scrapped because it no longer meets the standards for structural framing.

Two Bed Units One Bed Units Max Occupancy

Jett St NW

Existing Residential