The non-profit community center The Mattie Rhodes Center worked with the studio for a second project that was planned just a few blocks away from the studio’s AY2018-19 project. The project would have a similar program — 3 bed, 2 bath, and 1200 ft2 footprint — and would be designed for smaller lots that could use the neighborhoods existing alleys. Emerging Builders, the non-profit general contractor, would be the GC for the project and was involved in planning the project, design reviews, and constructability evaluations in DD and CD phases. The project planned to use HUD HOME funding like the AY2018-19 project, but would be stick-framed like the concurrent project with SENT. The selected site combined multiple landbank parcels together to provide room to build three homes.

Process. Six students worked on this project, starting with an analysis of the larger neighborhood and the sites after touring the studio’s first project, which had just been completed nearby. Students spent 13 weeks developing their projects from concept through design development. At the end of DD, the partner selected the design by Beau Bezanson to further develop. The last 2 weeks of the regular semester, the students worked as a group to establish a Revit central model and begin CDs, which were completed in the spring.

Students working on the project created some very successful designs and those not advancing to construction documents are shown here as well.

Students: Beau Bezanson, Simon Degrace, Chase Mason, Elise Maue, Margaret Phillips, Jesika Tieszen