This studio examines the integration of new affordable housing typologies in urban centers undergoing revitalization while enhancing conditions that commonly challenge urban resiliency including social equity, ecological re-naturalization and community welfare. The need for affordable housing is significant, especially in Atlanta where urban renewal projects like the partially constructed 22-mile BeltLine linear park have caused the cost of living to skyrocket, pricing out longtime lower-income residents. Artists have been extremely cost-burdened during this period with income levels holding steady in light of significant price increases where they live and work. This project responds by proposing “art-force” housing that aims to empower a vulnerable and under-served creative community with design excellence in affordable housing. Dignified transit-oriented housing models, developed in a formally industrial neighborhood undergoing gentrification immediate to the BeltLine corridor.
