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Lubbock Habitat for Humanity

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Contents 1 Project Manager/Principal Investigator: 2 Students: 3 Client: 4 Project Description: 5 Design Goals: 6 Design Solutions:

Project Manager/Principal Investigator:

Ben K. Shacklette, AIA

Students:

Heath May, Jonathan Wood, Tony Saenz. Britni Burkey, Kelly Ogilvie, Angeline Roberts

Client:

Lubbock Habitat for Humanity

Building Homes and Community
Community Design Laboratory -- ARCH 5604
College of Architecture, Texas Tech University

Tony Saenz, Heath May, Jonathan Wood, Ben K. Shacklette, AIA, James E. White, AIA

Habitat for Humanity is dedicated to the idea that all people deserve a safe and decent house in which to live. Habitat is building in more than 75 foreign countries and over 1,600 cities in the U.S. and Canada.

Habitat is people caring for people in a practical way. Volunteers do almost all of the work done on Habitat homes.

Funds for materials come from individuals, churches and organizations. No government funds are used for house construction. Families selected as Habitat homebuyers purchase the houses with a 20-year no-profit, no-interest mortgage, to make the payments affordable.

Lubbock Habitat grows out of the spirit of the Lubbock Community. Churches contribute 50% of financial backing, individuals 30%, and Habitat families 20%.

Design affordable housing units and master site plan at the undeveloped 2 acre site west of Loop 289 and south of Erskine Avenue. Housing design to conform to Habitat specifications regarding:

Project Description:

• Volunteer building methods
• Donated building materials
• Cost-effective design and planning
• Life cycle cost maintenance and energy
• Sustainable community planning
• Applicable zoning, ordinances, and codes

Design Goals:

• Reduce high-speed vehicular traffic within the community
• Interesting paths for pedestrians (facade variation, landscaping, safety, connection to community)
• Community interaction; within multifunctional Green Space/along street (front porch)
• Maintainable living dimensions based upon compact urban form
• Alternative views to mundane rowlock housing perspectives
• Create a rich and personable living environment
• Create a better quality of life based upon community life/interaction
• Pedestrian and bicycle paths
• Reduction and calming of traffic
• Appropriate for children and elderly
• Environmentally and socially sustainable

Design Solutions:

• Five site layout schemes demonstrating possible mixtures of single and multi-family units and commercial/retail shop in 200 foot deep easement along Loop 289 access road.
• Five multi-family unit schemes