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Imagine affordable homes that are both well-designed and environmentally friendly, better for the families who live in them and for the planet. The HOME House Project brings such imagining closer to reality. This book chronicles a multi-year national design initiative aimed at addressing issues of design, affordability, and sustainability in housing. Launched by the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, this project challenged designers and architects to imagine a world in which sustainable and environmentally friendly materials, technologies, and techniques were considered important elements of housing for low- and moderate-income families.
A SECCA-sponsored open competition in 2003 drew 440 entries from the United States and six other countries, all using Habitat for Humanity's three- and four-bedroom house plans as a point of departure for the design of affordable and environmentally friendly housing. This book, published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition, documents the 25 prize-winning designs as well as fifty other selected submissions with 396 color illustrations. The accompanying text includes Michael Sorkin's essay connecting democratic values to quality of housing, Ben Nicholson's satiric critique of American excess, Steve Badanes's insights on the social responsibilities of architects, and HOME House Project Director David Brown's overview of the project and its continuing evolution.
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Interesting Designs.......2007-05-07
The book features +-100 designs for affordable and green housing. These homes are a result of a design competition using as program the Habitat for Humanity guidelines: small sq. ft. and low budgets. In addition these homes needed to be environmentally friendly. Among the designs are some very conceptual ones that actually will never be built, but is a good theoretical approach. There are many others that in fact, are 100% buildable and their solutions are very creative and diverse. I believe some of the winning designs are up for construction.
This is a perfect book for students, professionals, environmentalists and people who appreciate progressive architecture in general.
No 'Real World' Relevence.......2006-03-21
Although interesting, these are designs and concepts that are not practical in the real world. But, if all you want are some pretty pictures...
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Now you can make the case for affordable housing and demonstrate that low-cost housing need not be of low quality. This lavishly illustrated book showcases 15 projects, designed by some of the nations most gifted architects, that prove that affordable housing can be durable, environmentally sensitive, comfortable, attractive, and economical to maintain.
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The essential, highly visual architectural design resource for affordable housing
Homes Within Reach provides the first systematic guide for planning, designing, and constructing modest, yet high-quality, homes. From siting and foundations to systems, layouts, and interior and exterior finishes, it covers dozens of design and construction techniques that promote housing quality with sensitivity to lowering costs.
Homes Within Reach is packed with hundreds of photographs, and architectural design details, making it a practical visual reference, covering such topics as:
- Selection of location and lot size with consideration of zoning
- Conceptual approaches to space design, access, circulation, and finishes
- Preconstruction phases and key building components, such as foundation, framing, window selection, prefabrication, and mechanical systems
- The subdivision—density measurement units and the relationship of lots to both the homes built on them and the street front
- Parking arrangements, pedestrian and cyclist paths, and project infrastructure
- Design strategies for open spaces for outdoor and leisure activities
- Infill housing, including approaches to take advantage of existing infrastructures
Complete with demonstration projects, checklists, and cost-analysis, Homes Within Reach is a valuable resource for architects.
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Design family housing that only looks like it cost a fortune. Discover how America's most creative, resourceful builders and communities are solving affordable housing problems by applying the design and construction techniques detailed in Good Neighbors: Affordable Family Housing by Tome Jones, William Pettus, and Michael Pyotok. Filled with real-life examples ranging from small towns to inner-city locations, this hands-on resource gives you a brief history of affordable housing in the USA and shows you how to develop these units with a mix of government and private financing, you get revealing profiles of people who live in affordable housing. . .essential data on the factors that influence affordable housing design. . .and dozens of illustrated case studies of developments from coast to coast. The book showcases the work of William Tawn Associates, Cooper Robertson Partners, Marquis Associates, Solomon, Inc. and other innovative firms.
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fantastic. Wonderful reference for professional and student.......1999-02-12
Fantastic. Wonderful reference for the professional and student
This book is indespensable for the design professional........1998-10-06
This book is an indespensable tool for the community design professional - don't leave home without it! Hundreds of color photos of well-designed multi-family housing in 85 case studies from around the US.
An excellent review of good architecture and good programs........1998-10-06
This book provides an excellent summary of the architecture of affordable housing and the best way to design and develop it. It is particularly useful for architects, planners, city staff and developers interested in improving their communities.
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That a country of wealth cannot provide sound housing for those in need is a national embarrassment. This book is about the design of dignified, affordable housing for those not served by the private sector, and how that housing fits comfortably into our communities. Sam Davis has written an accessible, non-technical analysis for everyone interested in the creation of affordable housing. Through discussions of cost, politics, and design concepts, as well as case studies of completed projects, he gives solutions to the dilemmas posed by the development process.
Good housing design is a delicate balance of community values, individual needs, esthetic judgments, and technical requirements. Good design can save money--seventy percent of the cost of a new dwelling is affected by planning and design. As a key ingredient in community building, housing should bestow on its inhabitants a sense of dignity, says Davis. To view this as a privilege for those who can afford market-rate housing invites both social and financial disaster. He also considers our national obsession with the single-family house and our historical ambivalence toward subsidized housing--attitudes that have often led to the stigmatization of low-income groups.
This book will be indispensable to community and volunteer groups, local governments, financial backers, architects, planners, and students in related fields.
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Housing Ourselves: Creating Affordable, Sustainable Shelter
Richard Burnham
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What the classic Good Neighbors did for urban multi-family housing, this book will do for single family housing in non-urban areas. It will inspire--here and abroad--the creation of affordable, sustainable, and customized dwellings that use local materials and vernacular styles. This timely resource offers methods that produce housing at a fraction of the cost of traditional and modular alternatives. It emphasizes self-expression in design and building, self-ownership along the lines of HUD's new policies, and the use of environmentally sustainable materials.
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Lucid, wise, applicable.......2000-12-04
I'm surprised that this is the first review here for 'Housing Ourselves', but if you haven't read this book already, you should buy it now. Or at least go to your bookstore and read it.
'Housing Ourselves' essentially is a theoretical manual for the construction of affordable and sustainable rural houses; not to say that practical applications and examples are absent, or that the ideas can't be used on a suburban or urban lot, but I think Burnham himself makes the point that he's writing this book for the owner-builder out on the land.
Regardless, this is one of the very few books I've seen written for the every-day family who wants to build well, sustainably, and for the future on a budget; in addition, it's an idea-rich and inspirational book for affordable housing in general.
Read it as a how-to manual, read it as an essay on how to get back to affordable and sustainable design simply and for the long haul, but just read it. It's well-illustrated, well-written, and a good gift for your friends who want to build their own house.
- George Oliver georgeolivergo@yahoo.com
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Blueprint for Green Affordable Housing is a guide for housing developers, advocates, public agency staff, and the financial community that offers specific guidance on incorporating green building strategies into the design, construction, and operation of affordable housing developments. A completely revised and expanded second edition of the groundbreaking 1999 publication, this new book focuses on topics of specific relevance to affordable housing including:
* how green building adds value to affordable housing
* the integrated design process
* best practices in green design for affordable housing
* green operations and maintenance
* innovative funding and finance
* emerging programs, partnerships, and policies
Edited by national green affordable housing expert Walker Wells and featuring a foreword by Matt Petersen, president and chief executive officer of Global Green USA, the book presents 12 case studies of model developments and projects, including rental, home ownership, special needs, senior, self-help, and co-housing from around the United States. Each case study describes the unique green features of the development, discusses how they were successfully incorporated, considers the project's financing and savings associated with the green measures, and outlines lessons learned.
Blueprint for Green Affordable Housing is the first book of its kind to present information regarding green building that is specifically tailored to the affordable housing development community.
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The Complete Guide to Manufactured Housing: The Affordable Alternative to Stick-Built Construction
Gary D. Branson
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Informative coverage of the Manufactured Housing Industry.......1997-07-16
This is an excellent presentation of the many aspects involved in the Manufactured Housing Industry. Though I have been involved in Mobile Home Community ownership and management for over 25 years, this book has added greatly to my knowledge
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Affordable to Build Home Plans
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This innovative book helps readers develop a personal philosophy and an artful approach to teaching. This text uses the premise that teacher choices set the stage for a balanced approach to art education that considers the child, society, and the curriculum. This book provides information regarding artistic development, artistic behavior and methodology for developing curriculum across the developmental spectrum. The reader is directly addressed as each chapter presents recent research along with important concepts to understand, focuses on different aspects of art education, and outlines advantages and challenges of making the suggested choices, and also includes suggested activities so readers can act upon content. For art teachers at the elementary or secondary education level or students studying to be art teachers.
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