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Graduate students at the Yale School of Architecture have designed and built a contemporary family home in a low-income neighbourhood in New
Haven, Connecticut (+ slideshow).
The dwelling was completed as part of the school's Jim Vlock Building Project, a programme established in 1967.
The programme is focused on designing and constructing low-cost homes in economically distressed neighbourhoods in New Haven, Connecticut the
city where Yale is based.
First-year students are required to participate as part of the school's curriculum. "Unique among architecture schools, this programme is mandatory for
all members of the class," said the school.
"The house allows students the experience of working with a client and the opportunity to respond to the challenges of affordable housing and urban
infill."
This year, students were tasked with creating a 1,000-square-foot (93 square metres) dwelling on a corner lot in the city's West River district.
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"Students were challenged to develop a cost-efficient and flexible design prototype that could be adapted to similar sites in New Haven and other urban
environments across the country," said the school.
Fifty-two students broke into eight teams and worked simultaneously on design schemes. A panel of faculty members and guest jurors selected the
winning proposal.
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The students then constructed the home over the summer, with an official dedication taking place in early October. The construction budget was
$130,000 (86,300).
The two-storey house is clad in red cedar and is topped with a pitched roof made of galvanised aluminium.
"The pitched roof was a contextually sensitive response to the traditional New England gable roof," said the school.
The upper portion of the home slightly cantilevers over the ground level, giving the building a distinctive appearance in a neighbourhood dotted with
more traditional architecture. A low concrete wall borders the property.
The home's design is centred on the idea of a multi-functional core. "The core is efficient, consolidating stairs and utilities to leave the remainder of
space open, gracious, and able to connect to the site," said the school.
The core is essentially a wooden box inserted into the centre of the home. It shields the kitchen and living room on the first floor from a highly exposed
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street corner.
Stairs within the core lead to the upper storey, which contains a communal space with built-in cabinetry, along with bedrooms and bathrooms.
"The density of the ground floor is flung to the perimeter of the house on the upper floor, creating a thickness to hold furniture and fixtures for bedrooms
and bath," described the school.
The team fitted the interior with concrete and bamboo flooring, white oak millwork and modern appliances. Several large windows, along with a
skylight at the top of the core, enable natural light to fill the space.
A number of companies donated labour and material for the project, including site excavation, plumbing and drywall.
Throughout the project, the students collaborated with NeighborWorks New Horizons, a nonprofit organisation dedicated to developing quality
affordable housing.
The organisation put the house up for sale, and it was recently purchased by a family who has lived in the neighbourhood all of their life.
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The project was honoured with the 2015 Award of Merit for Student Design from the Connecticut Green Building Council.
The Jim Vlock Building Project was started by Charles W Moore, the architecture school's dean from 1965 to 1971, in collaboration with faculty
member Kent Bloomer.
"Moore saw that getting out of the studio and building something would have several benefits for the students," said the school. "As a believer in simple
tectonics and basic technologies, he hoped students would be inspired by the mechanics of building."
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"In the midst of the student unrest of the 1960s he saw the project as a way for students to commit to positive social action by building for the poor."
Early projects were located outside of New Haven, ranging from community centres in the Appalachian region to camp structures in rural Connecticut.
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In more recent years, the programme has teamed up with groups such as Habitat for Humanity and Common Ground to focus on affordable housing.
Other recent design-build projects include a pair of micro-cabins on the Navajo Reservation in Utah by students from the University of Colorado.
Project credits:
Partner: NeighborWorks New Horizons

Project director: Adam Hopfner
Assistant project director: Kyle Bradley
Studio coordinator: Alan Organschi
Studio critics: Trattie Davies, Peter de Bretteville, Amy Lelyveld, Joeb Moore, Herbert Newman
Student project managers: Alex Kruhly and Tess McNamara
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Ground floor plan click for larger image
First floor plan click for larger image
Section click for larger image
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baju-baju
A beautiful layout. Simple, clean and functional.

bone voyage
Beautiful and simple.

Guest
Looks beautifully conceived and executed. Brings a whole new dimension to low-cost housing.

Colonel Pancake
Why is it that so many designers find quirky irregularities to be a necessary attribute of contemporary housing? Is there a particular reason
that the pure, austere simplicity of vernacular farmhouses with their regularity of facades and uniformity of materiality no longer suffices
as quality design? It seems like the novelty of inventiveness is the paralysing creative burden that all students have unnecessarily afflicted
themselves with. As if 25-year olds have been in the business long enough to reinvent the house through experience?

Sim
I don't know, I guess you have to start somewhere and this is not a bad start. I think it's better to start this way under the guidance
of experienced teachers then on one's own.
I would mirror the stairs and the toilet, because otherwise the living room will become a hallway (especially with the doors to the
outside also in the living room).
I love the upstairs layout; very clever. Maybe a window in the bathroom? But that is really the only "fault" I can find. Storage is
always a complex issue in houses like this (baby carriage, sled in winter, shoes, coats, bikes? Car seats, camping stuff, ski's etc).

Sim
PS I do agree that somehow in these days people act as if young people have some sort of miraculous intelligence that older people
sorely lack.
I think older people have the ability to see things with more experience and in a greater context, and are better able to see how
relevant certain things can be.

Bore off pancake face.

Xaya
So true! Even here in the countryside in Germany, houses are done in a "failed Mondrian-ish" facade design more and more often.
There is no composition or rhythm anymore. Even cognitive psychology shows that iterating elements are "pleasing". Sure that's a
more "organic" approach, but is it really a feast for the eyes? That said, nice layout, even the staircase/kitchen core is a bit heavy!

Oana Coarf
What is the price?

Zuranto
I visited the site this summer and the students working there told me it was about a hundred thousand dollars with everything
included.

fergusnaughton
I think many aspects of this design are very, very nice. However, I would agree with SIm on the plan revisions and if it is a model of
affordable housing it isn't necessarily the most efficient plan anyway to begin with. I would also consider the inclusion of a storm lobby at
the entrance.
Like Oana Coarf, I also wonder what the cost is? This seems like a critical piece of information in trying to evaluate its success as 'a model
for affordable housing'!
As such I would also like to see more technical information with regards primary energy demand and space heat demand to evaluate if it is
a also a model for sustainable housing rather than just judging it on its pleasing aesthetics.

James Erlandson
It's interesting that an article about a house designed as "a model for affordable housing" doesn't include a price or any cost information.
The house was sold. What was the selling price?

Ian Nairn
It's a well-realised project, but if the headline is "students design affordable housing" then why is there no information/data detailing how
this fulfils that aim?
Doesn't look like the savings were made on the finish and appliances though to be fair that might just be a trick of clever design and I'd
be the last to claim that low-cost housing shouldn't be finished to a high standard.
But you also mention that a lot of the contractors/suppliers provided their products and services for free. Perhaps the solution to the
housing crisis is to have every home designed by Ivy League students so that we can make greater use of the apparent benevolence of the
construction industry under such circumstances.

Jon
Until the price is published and compared against standard affordable housing rates for the area, I find it hard to believe that this can be
classed as affordable. The level of detailing alone is of much higher spec than standard affordable housing. That being said, a very nice
looking house and some lovely detailing.

Louis R Johnson
I don't see a cost to implement anywhere? For me that would be the most interesting part of the story... if it is affordable anyway.

disco_burrito
On Yale news they stated the price was "less than $100 per square foot," but they had also received "more than $100k" in donated building
materials. Labor was performed by students.
Since they received more than $100 per square foot in donations, that means they're not including donations in their per square foot cost.
So the actual cost is more like:
( <$100K Yale costs) + ( >$100K donations ) + labor.
If we very conservatively estimate labor at $50K, the total for the 1000-square-foot Yale house probably comes to something like $250,000
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A beautiful layout. Simple, clean and functional.

Beautiful and simple.

Bore off pancake face.

What is the price?

( <$100K Yale costs) + ( >$100K donations ) + labor.

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