Thesis Defense - Urban Design Factors on Quality of Life in Permanent Supportive Housing

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Urban Design Factors on Quality of Life in Permanent Supportive Housing

Thesis Defense

Autumn 2023

Introduction

Context, PPS&Q,

Literature Review

Quick synopsis

02 03 04 05 Design Suggestions

Methodology

Mixed-Methods quantitative & qualitative

Results

See characteristics of PSH communities

Takeaways

Context

Housing as a System

Intersection of multiple systems

Sociology & Community Economic Physiological Shelter Architecture & Planning

Health Culture & Identity Sustainability Policy

Introduction

Introduction

PPS&Q & Context

Problem

Rising homelessness and increasing demand for shelter.

Purpose Statement

Understand design impacts on housing recovery in PSH.

Question

How does design impact quality of life for PSH residents.

Hypothesis

Traditional design is not meeting the needs of formerly chronic homeless individuals in PSH.

Permanent Supportive Housing

Durable comprehensive housing given without time limits to help individuals exit homelessness. Housing is without conditions, but does offer optional ‘wraparound’ supportive services such as counseling, health-care, and substance abuse treatment to meet individual needs where the client is at.

Literature Review

Lit Review Overview

Psychological & Metaphysical

Housing recovery, health, & identity

Psychosocial

Legacies of discrimination & hostile B.E.

Physical Built Environment

How does design engender the goals of PSH?

History & Legacy

American History of Poverty & Puritanical ideological roots of attitudes towards poverty

Institutional Design & Spatial Segregation

Question of what to do about ‘public neighbors’

-Colonial settlements = ‘waned out’

-Jeffersonian Times = given land to work

-Institutions

-Almshouses

-Workhouses

-House of Correction & House of Industry

-Asylums

West Coast = Missions

-Panoptic Design

-Spatial Determinism

Panoptic Design

Hoovervilles

Early 20

Spatial Segregation

Physically removing ‘problematic neighbors’

-Original Almshouse (1662)

-Leverett St. Almshouse (1800-1825)

-Deer Island (1847) -House of Industry (1852)

-House of Industry (1825 – 1847)

-House of Reformation

-Lunatic Asylum

-Hospital

-Asylum for the Blind (pre 1847)

Mid 1800’s
-Massachusetts General (1818) Deer Island
New McClean Hospital

Discrimination in the Built Environment

Systemic removal and displacement

Staircase vs. Housing First

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98% Individuals acceptance of PSH in Seattle when offered.

FailPoints

At Home / Chez Soi study

Housing

Transitional Housing

(<2 years)

Treatment

Emergency Shelter

(30 – 60 Days) (30 Days – 9 mo.)

Homelessness

+ Greater feelings of acceptance and + Increased utilization of services

Chief Seattle Club

Cost of Housing

Cost is a barrier to meeting scale

Dockside Apt’s

Salmonberry Lofts
Burbridge Place

Sense of Home

Cultural, Sociological, and Psychological Concept

Access to ‘normal stuff’

Having access to ‘normal stuff’ can help in creating routines and reconnect with hobbies.

Identity Construct

Gives us a base point to orient the construction of our identity.

Structure

While housing is composed as a physical structure, a house does not make a home.

Cultural and Emotional Significance

We include cultural elements in our homes that reinforce traditions, rituals, and hold symbolic meaning

Stability of land tenure across homeownership, rentals, and informality Tenure

Personalization

We change our homes to reflect ourselves, to help create routines.

Traumatic experience of being forcibly removed from Losing connectedness to communities and ones home.

Misconception that homeless individuals ‘don’t want

Ontological Security

National Demographics King Co. Demographics

emotionally harmful or life-threatening with lasting adverse effects on the individuals functioning and mental, physical, social,

Developed between Shopworks Architecture & University of Denver

Trauma Informed Design

Process intends to incorporate voices and personalities of homeless individuals in the design process. The important final step is post-occupancy evaluation and lessons learned for designers.

Guiding Principles

Dialectical Conversations

Methodology

Data Acquisition

Obtained PSH Data

Data Cleaning

Cleaned the data and limited down to City of Seattle.

Visualization

Looked at initial housing data

Site Selection

Typologies were created and sites selected.

Spatial Data

Acquisition

Obtained necessary spatial data associated with selected sites

Site Observation

Organized site observations and distilled notes.

Data Analysis

Analyzed site data using both observation and spatial data.

Synthesized recommendations for PSH design. Recommendation

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DESC Sites Selected

Kerner-Scott
1811 Eastlake
Morrison Hotel
Evans House
Nav. Center
Estelle
Rainier House (control)

Selected PSH Communities

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Results

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Heatmap of PSH
Kerner-Scott House 1811 Eastlake Navigation Center
Evans House
Rainier House
The Morrison Hotel
The Estelle

Window Evidence - negative

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Window Evidence - positive

Window Evidence – desire for ventilation

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Trauma Sensitivity & Windows

Fenestration Type and Glazing Proportions

Rainier House, 1811

Eastlake, Morrison Hotel

typ.
Double Hung
Typ. Rainier House
Casement
typ. Kerner-Scott
Single Hung
typ. Evans House
Picture & Double Hung
typ. Evans House
Casement & Pane
typ. The Estelle

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Empty Common Spaces

Design Suggestions

Size & Density

Fenestration

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Expression

Common Spaces

Therapeutic Gardens

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Connection to Green

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Public – Private Transition

Ventilation

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Questions?

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Alternative Skyline

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Man with Homeless sign outline

https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/dallas-will-roll-out-a-panhandling-database-later-this-week-city-officials-say-13018239

House of Industry

http://goodoldboston.blogspot.com/2011/12/south-boston-instututions-of-old.html

Boston Alsmhouse

https://hum54-15.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/exhibits/show/southendburyingground/item/716

Map of first Boston Almshouse https://storage.googleapis.com/clio-images/large_68348.183613.jpg

Hooverville 1

https://www.seattle.gov/images/CityArchive/DDL/Hoovervilles/90.2.0685lowres.jpg

Hooverville 2

https://www.seattle.gov/images/CityArchive/DDL/Hoovervilles/90.2.0523lowres.jpg

SRO Hotel

https://www.historylink.org/Content/Media/Photos/Large/hotel-in-chinese-section-of-downtown-seattle-ca-1920.jpg

At Home / Chez-Soi Study graph results

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4679127/ New Almshouse (Deer Island) http://genealogytrails.com/mass/almshouse.html

Hostile Architecture Bench

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DESC Burbridge Place

Blake House (Plymouth Housing)

Dockside Apartments

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Cost

https://www.csh.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Report_CostforIndividuals1.pdf

Hooverville 1

https://www.seattle.gov/images/CityArchive/DDL/Hoovervilles/90.2.0685lowres.jpg

Hooverville 2

https://www.seattle.gov/images/CityArchive/DDL/Hoovervilles/90.2.0523lowres.jpg

Rand Corporation Study

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1694.html

Rise on Madison

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Transect

https://montgomeryplanning.org/blog-design/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/transect_DPZ_Andres-Duany.jpg

Punched Openings

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Common Spaces 1

https://www.weberthompson.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/1400-Madison-PH-ID-04.jpg

Common Spaces 2

https://www.weberthompson.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/1400-Madison-BH-ID-03.jpg

Ceiling Heat Pump Unit

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HVAC Compressor Units

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Heat Pump diagram

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NYC Air Conditioner Wall

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