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Just Big Enough- Green Housing for ALL design competition (2018)
Just Big Enough-Green Housing for ALL competition video (thanks to Kris Badertscher)
The Just Big Enough-Green Housing for ALL was a design competition will help us highlight how we can create very small very green housing that is affordable to people left out of the green housing market, and find a design solution to some surplus city-owned lots.
The competition was sponsored by the City of Northampton, co-sponsored by American Institute of Architects Western Massachusetts, and supported by the Boston Society of Architects Foundation and the Pioneer Valley Habitat for Humanity.
Thanks to our sponsors who underwrote the prizes that go to the first and second place winners. We would not have done this competition without them: Kent Hicks Construction, PV Squared, rkMiles.
Entries (16 in all)
Cunbei Jiang-- Kathleen Lugosch (PDF)
Elisah Bettencourt-- Kathleen Lugosch - shout out for particularly strong design concept (PDF)
Fitch Architecture and Community Design - shout out for attention to social considerations (PDF)
Lepre and Hinrichs- shout out for great model (PDF)
Pari Riahi Architects- shout out for spectacularly beautiful living space (PDF)
Background
REVISED Plan--location of three homes for the Just Big Enough competition (PDF)
Approved Site Plan Approval Plans for site in AutoCad 2000 DWG (to be revised) (PDF)
REVISED GRADING PLAN (not yet approved by Planning Board) in DWG (PDF)
REVISED PLANTING PLAN (not yet approved by Planning Board) in DWG (PDF)
REVISED SITE PLAN (not yet approved by Planning Board) in DWG (PDF)
Questions, email Wayne Feiden.
Thank you to our Just Big Enough-Green Housing for ALL jury:
Michael Davis, FAIA, President, Bergmeyer Associates, Boston
Li Ling Young, Senior Energy Manager, Vermont Energy Investment Corporation, Burlington, VT
Brian Mac, AIA, Principal Architect, Birdseye, Richmond, VT