HOUSEY HOUSE

Academic Group Project: Maggie Martin

Professor: Andrew Colopy

Houston, TX

Spring 2021 - Awarded Fossi Prize

- Groupwork equal parts conceptual and graphic workHousey House situates itself as a product that addresses the real world problems with current unsuccessful methods of home ownership regulations, and serves as a critique of housing accessibility through the ADU. Though the project can be viewed from a multitude of lenses, including home equity, iconography, and adaptability, its strength lies in its economic identity. This ADU serves as an architectural tool meant to embrace economic diversity by touting an extremely low starting cost, while simultaneously possessing a design that can support further improvements. Housey House can be purchased from any hardware store or builders magazine. It is prefabricated and purposely petite for simplified shipping, arriving in the form of 3 modules that contain the bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen. The ADU is positioned at the corner of the site nearest to the driveway, where the modules that contain the bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen. The ADU is positioned at the corner of the site nearest to the driveway, where the modules spread across the site based on a public visibility logic. Between the three modules lies an infill space, where the owner holds creative liberty to expand upon the decking the ADU kit requires. With such a small starting cost as well as new ordinances to be embraced by the city, the opportunity for home ownership is expanded to the larger population. Housey House aims to empower the person that lives within it, with choice, driven at its core, by economic variety. It pushes against the current reality, being that the present issues with ADU’s is that there is no mechanism for home ownership; it exemplifies how urban densification can be modestly achieved through contemporary industrialization. For a modest $78,000 get Housey House at your local hardware store soon.

This project took advantage of current production and construction methods en masse, without sacrificing opportunites for personalization of the home.