Ogden Workforce Prototype Home #2 [NPS7]

Following the success of the previous build in Ogden, the Workforce Solar Housing Partnership worked together again on a second project in Ogden. A large lot across from the town’s Elementary School was purchased and determined that multiple homes could be built on the site, which was part of the studio’s initial design task. The program for the home was similar to the previous Ogden build: 3 bed, 2 bath, all-electric and net zero. Site preparation was planned for the summer and Manhattan Area Technical College (MATC) would lead the assembly of the home’s envelope in the fall with trainees from Ft. Riley’s Home Builders Institute (HBI) on site as well. These two educational partners would continue work through the spring to complete the home. The home would have a 4.3 kW PV array whose installation would be coordinated by FHREEC but would be installed by students.

Process. Early in design, the students presented a site concept of two homes mirrored across a green swale, which would also manage surface water on the site which would eventually have three homes in a “pocket community.” The completed design was slightly larger than prior studio builds, at 1319 GSF. The studio moved quickly through conceptual and schematic design in just a few weeks. After coalescing around
a single design, construction documents were completed by mid-semester and work moved on to building panels
in the shop. By the end of the semester, panels were completed and waiting for assembly on site, which had been
planned to start in the fall led by students from MATC.

Work by WSHP partners resumed during the fall of 2023 on site, where the shell of the house was quickly erected and work began on the opposite house, which would be built using stick-framing. A third house is now planned for the north of the site. The project of three units on one site became the first project owned/sold through the first community land trust operating in the Flint Hills region, called the Good Steward CLT. Initiated by the Habitat, the CLT will be a tool for developing future multi-home developments that preserve affordability while further lowering home costs.