Designer: Jeremiah Russell, Assoc. AIA; Nicky Nanji, Assoc. AIA, Aaron Glick and Allison Giordano
Project: 2008 Emerging Architects Pheonix Heights Housing Design Competition
Client: Habitat for Humanity - Jacksonville Chapter (HabiJax)
Location: Jacksonville, Florida
Construction Budget: $85 per square foot for each residence
The task was to design 2-3 single family residences that would become part of The Pheonix Heights Development. The designs would be used as templates to be repeated throughout the neighborhood development. The desire was to get away from the standard Habitat homes with a more modern/contemporary design.
And so, we began with the classic child's image of a house (single door, two windows and a pitched roof). This image was the genesis of both The Bungalow and The Charleston home design. With such a small construction budget for each home, the use of material and color became paramount in achieving a more contemporary aesthetic. While we were constricted by using more traditional building materials like horizontal siding, brick veneer and architectural shingles, by using them in different ways we were able to "update" that classic image of a house into something more of our time.
These designs along with others were presented to the HabiJax team for their use in designing one or more new neighborhoods. While not currently under construction, there are plans for these designs to be used in future projects.
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