***This page was taken from a section of the handout
developed by Robert I. Selby, AIA, Associate Professor of Architecture
and Kathryn H. Anthony, Ph.D., Professor of Architecture for their Architecture
371 Design Studio, Fall 1999, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Emerson Park Development Corporation, as part of the Neighborhood Faith-Based Housing Program, is writing to request that a senior or graduate level design studio develop 10 homes which will be built beginning in July of 2000.
EPDC will construct the ten homes next summer for low to very low income families. Advertisements will be placed to recruit families beginning in July 1999. The families will be screened and will complete a home ownership counseling seminar as well as a home buyer maintenance program. Each family will also be required to establish a savings account. Most of the families are headed by single mothers with two to four children.
EPDC is trying to develop a style of housing for the neighborhood. The residents are interested in continuing the existing style most prevalent in the neighborhood at this time which is a 1920's, prairie style design with heavy overhangs, porches, and layering that adds character to the smallest of homes. A typical lot in Emerson Park Neighborhood is 50'-0" x 150'-0" to 190'-0". Lots can be combined to create a 65'-0" frontage as well.
If the project is approved for a Fall 1999 design studio the requirements for the homes will be as follows:
- 1200-1400 square
feet single story on a crawl space-no basements,
- 3 bedrooms,
none smaller than 12'-0" x 12'-0",
- 2 bathrooms,
- living room,
with
- eat-in kitchen
with refrigerator, stove, range hood, double sink with garbage disposal,
- front porch
with minimum of 6'-0" depth, can be complete width of home,
- rear patio,
minimum of 12'-0" x 12'-0",
- atrium doors
instead of sliding patio doors,
- 2 car garage
- minimum outside measurement of 20'-0" x 20'-0", not larger than 24'-0"
x 24'-0",
- washer/dryer
hookups, and
- central air/gas
heat
All plans should be as efficient and as open as possible, due to the size of the rooms, cathedral ceilings can be designed to increase the feeling of the size of the living room and or kitchen areas. Two windows in corner bedrooms will also increase the feeling of the size of the room. Please remember that many of these homes will be constructed by volunteers and therefore the pitches on the roofs should be kept in mind, and be somewhere in the area of 4/12-7/12. Due to the depth of the lots, garages can be detached and behind the homes, but the designer should not expect to use the alleys for access to the property.
Each set of plans will have to have to be sealed by an architect and include a site plan and a full set of construction documents delivered to EPDC not later than the end of February. The walls and trusses will be built by the prisoners at the Hardin County Prison and will require design for 70 MPH wind loads. The typical cost per square foot for residential construction is $55-$65 per square foot in this area.