ATLANTA AFFORDABLE HOUSING

Atlanta, GA

Fourth Ward Neighborhood

HUD Innovation in Affordable Housing: Student Design and Planning Competition 2022

This project was a schematic level design for Phase I of the HUD IAH Competition. The 2022 competition worked with Atlanta Housing and called for a new mixed-use community with affordable housing in the Fourth Ward neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia. The goal was to develop multi-family housing strategies that integrate with existing cultural facilities on the site as well as increase the urban density of the area. This required an understanding of local policy, budgeting, history of Buttermilk bottom (the predominantly Black neighborhood targeted for urban renewal) and the areas flooding and water consumption issues. Our OU team’s solution involved a mix of townhouses and high-rise housing with ground level retail, live-work housing opportunities, a new library, a water reclamation facility, detention basins that function as a park, and revitalization of the currently closed Exhibition Hall.

SITE SECTION & PRECEDENT

DOWNTOWN ATLANTA BIRD’S EYE VIEW

The reimagined Historic Trolley Route includes stops at 1) the State Capitol Publishing Museum, 2) the Scottish Rite Masonic Temple, 3) Highland Park, 4) the Oklahoma Territorial Museum, 5) Mineral Wells Park and 6) the Elbow Project. Total travel time is approximately 30 minutes.