Impact Lufkin: Scalable Soulutions to Micropolitan Housing

The project explores relationships among houses as a small settlement. The strategy challenges the suburban subdivision approach that micropolitan communities across Texas have adopted. Specifically, the project works toward a place-based response to the creation of affordable supportive housing for working-poor households in the North Lufkin neighborhood of Lufkin, Texas. Architecturally, the project takes a multi-scalar approach, from locally sourced wood resources and construction processes to the arrangement of units into clusters with shared outdoor resources. The residential buildings are modest yet generous unit typologies. Aesthetically, the project draws upon silhouettes and standard building elements common to the region, an architectural vocabulary that flickers between foreground and background.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.109.15

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978-1-944214-37-1