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The Alley Flat Initiative is a joint collaboration between the University of Texas Center for Sustainable Development, the Guadalupe Neighborhood Development Corporation, and the Austin Community Design and Development Center.
The long term objective of the Alley Flat Initiative is to create an adaptive and self-perpetuating delivery system for affordable and sustainable housing in Austin.
Shelter with spirit provided a grant to the Guadalupe Neighborhood Development Corporation to incorporate spray foam insulation in this 600 square foot, one bedroom cottage located in East Austin. Spray foam insulation has the advantage of filling wall and ceiling cavities completely, providing very high R-values, and blocking air leakage very effectively.
For more information on the Alley Flat Initiative, please contact Michael Gatto, or Barbara Wilson at 512 220-4254.
Central Texas Affordable Home
Neighborhood Housing Services of Austin
Shelter with spirit has sponsored an innovative, and sustainable design by buildingstudio, with the desire to provide architecturally imaginative choices for non-profit Community Developers, and ultimately homebuyers in the affordable housing market in Central Texas.
This design scheme was based on a program, developed by Shelter with spirit and a local Community Developer, Neighborhood Housing Services of Austin, intended to approach affordable home design differently…to include not only sustainable building ideas, but to also address the need for the design to be informed by contemporary architectural paradigms.
buildingstudio is a small collaborative firm focusing on inventive and imaginative work, regularly acknowledged in the United States, and abroad, for its design excellence.
buildingstudio was founded with two principles in mind: first, to blur the boundaries between architecture, art, craft and thinking. Rather than separate disciplines, buildingstudio treats each as essential to the larger realm of building, and coupled with this, their work explores built presence grounded in the experience of the real world; building as realized through a process of critical reflection.
buildingstudio has designed projects in the United States and internationally. Their work has been shown in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York City, the National Building Museum in Washington D.C., the San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.
Historic Jobe House
Guadalupe Neighborhood CDC
The Guadalupe Neighborhood Development Corporation (GNDC) is a non-profit community based organization created in 1981 to begin revitalization of an area east of downtown. The neighborhoods where GNDC does the bulk of its work are in a four square mile area between I-35 and Pleasant Valley Road, East 11th Street, and the River.
It has been the vision and work of the GNDC to rehabilitate and build rental units, lease-to-own units, and new homes for purchase by qualifying families of the Guadalupe neighborhoods. To date, GNDC has rehabilitated more than fifty homes, enabled thirty-eight families to purchase homes, and built thirty-two new single family and duplex rental housing units in the Guadalupe neighborhood.
Shelter with spirit has provided a small grant to enable the GNDC to purchase a 14 SEER HVAC system for the historic “Jobe house” on East Ninth Street. This system will have a variable speed fan which will improve comfort, and efficiency, and allow continuous air filtering at minimum energy cost.
For more information on the good works of the Guadalupe Neighborhood Development Corporation, please contact Mr. Mark Rogers at 512 479-6275, or e-mail him at gndc@sbcglobal.net.
Harden Solar Duplex
Blackland CDC
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The Blackland Community Development Corporation builds and operates transitional housing, and housing for low income citizens in the area east of Interstate 35, opposite the main campus of the University of Texas.
The Harden Solar Duplex, named for original owner Minnie Harden, consists of a move-on home (the Minnie Harden cottage) and a University of Texas designed and built experimental solar home.
Shelter with spirit provided a small grant to Blackland Community Development Corporation to purchase a high efficiency window air conditioning unit for the Minnie Harden cottage located on East 22nd Street, in East Austin.
For more information on the good works of the Blackland Community Development Corporation, please contact Dr. Bo McCarver at 512 474-6009, or e-mail him at bmccarver@austin.rr.com.
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