affordable housing | central city - new orleans, la | tulane university | fall 2021
Graduate Architecture Studio Year 01 | Faculty- Byron Mouton | Programs Used- Rhino, Enscape, Illustrator, Photoshop This studio worked directly with a local church to design the first of four affordable, single-family homes that will be built on a lot the church owns that is across the street from the existing church building. Bethlehem Lutheran is the oldest historically black ELCA congregation in the country and is an essential force in its local New Orleans neighborhood. The proposed design offers a 2-bedroom 2-bathroom house that is ADA accessible. It's overall plan is divided into three strips: a public strip that is adjacent to the driveway/walkway, a private strip that borders an existing house, and a service strip that separates the two. The building form was created so the public spaces are double-height which allows them to feel more open and receive ample daylight from the clerestory windows on the northwest facade. The lower roof of the private space wraps around to the front of the building and keeps the line of the neighboring houses' porch roofs. There is a private courtyard between the bedrooms that provides the residents with an exterior space that resembles a backyard- a place that children could play without parents worrying about them running into the street.