Veteran homelessness is a state and national problem. The North Carolina Coalition to End Homelessness has a particular focus on ending veteran homelessness in North Carolina. One contemporary solution to veteran homelessness are micro house villages. Micro houses are small, complete, single dwellings that range from 150 – 400 square feet. Micro house villages are groupings of micro houses on a single property that allow residents to live independently, while benefitting from supportive services.
The Micro Housing for Homeless + Disabled Veterans was a research and design project conducted by the School of Architecture, NC State University and sponsored by the North Carolina Coalition to End Homelessness. Faculty and graduate students produced research on veteran homelessness and support services, conducted research on precedents and best practices of micro housing, micro house villages, supportive housing, and manufactured housing, engaged with various constituencies, and designed prototypical micro house villages for a range of sites in the Triangle area. The program for the project included housing units, a supportive services building, and associated landscape areas, and incorporated accessibility and other special needs of homeless and disabled veterans. National experts on micro house villages and local affordable housing providers and advocates participated in the project.
Faculty
Thomas Barrie, AIA, Professor of Architecture
David Hill, AIA, Professor of Architecture, Chair: School of Architecture
Project Sponsor
Terry Allebaugh, North Carolina Coalition to End Homelessness
Project Research Assistant
Alyssa Dohler, Masters of Architecture student
Visiting Critics
Davin Hong, Living Design Lab, Baltimore , MD
Omar Hakeem, Design Director: bcWorkshop, Dallas, TX
Advisory Committee
Sarah Desmarais, Associate Professor of Psychology, CHASS
Andy Fox, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture
David Harris, Wake County Human Services Housing Division
Mary Haskett, Professor of Psychology, CHASS
David Maurer, Maurer Architecture
Lewis Sadler, Sadler Construction/Wake County Home Builders Association)
Jeff Smith, Military and Veterans Programs Liaison, NC Dept. of Health and Human Services
Abbie Szymanski, Executive Director, Partnership to End Homelessness
Students
Austin Corriher, Ross Davidson, Alyssa Dohler, Kal Fadem, Ryan Kilgarron, Katie O’Campo, Justin McNair,
Elenor Methuen, Amelia Murphy, Scott Needham, Nicole Simeonsson
Awards
• ARCHITECT Magazine 2019 Studio Prize
• Finalist: AIA 2019 Film Challenge
Watch the video here
Read the report here
Micro Housing for Homeless and Disabled Veterans
Research
Sustainability and Microhousing
Selected Projects