HANNA VILLAROSA

stand 5’3’’ above the ground, but you will always find me with my head in the clouds, always dreaming, often spacing out. On weekends, you will probably find me in the kitchen experimenting on a new dish or dessert with music blasting in the background, and me singing at the top of my lungs. I would trade any meal for a slice of cake because can never find a balance between too little and too much sweets, but that will never stop me from having them anyway.

By the age of 7, I already knew that I wanted to be an architect, and that dream continues to fuel my ambitions and aspirations to this day. Throughout my life as an architecture student, I have learned more than I thought ever could. Not merely about form or program, but the massive role and responsibility of architecture in the way it integrates all functions of life and affects the way humans live and experience space.The impact architecture can make and its ability to create change continues to

Seattle Affordable Housing

Seattle’s homeless crisis has been increasing and evolving throughout the years with its roots running deep: touching racial inequality, economic disparity and poverty, rising housing and living costs and thus a lack of affordable housing, mental health issues and addiction, and the lack of services for the youth. Due to social stigma and the lack of opportunities, people born into poverty face extremely difficult challenges in trying to integrate themselves into society, which makes it even harder for them to escape the vicious cycle of homelessness.

Set in the year 2070, the project aims to aid Seattle’s homeless in the transition back into society to provide them (particularly women and their children) permanent housing and services to help reintegrate, rehabilitate, and give them opportunities for success in four ways: livingcondition, overall health, way of life, and connection to the community. Through the services within the building’s program and the opportunity to heal and rehabilitate, it is the project’s mission to house these people in dignified placeswherein they have the possibility of growing and turning from “helpless” to “hopeful.”