Affordable Housing as Driver for Equitable Landscapes

Start Date
08/24/2024
End Date
08/24/2024
Description
A landscape architect, a non-profit developer, and an architect will discuss how they have worked together to leverage multilayered affordable housing partnerships to create impactful open spaces in San Francisco. Through an inclusive and interdisciplinary design process, affordable housing projects can go beyond serving basic needs; they can strengthen a community’s identity while providing services and amenities to the overall neighborhood. This session will explore La Fenix at 1950 Mission, a 100% affordable housing community with art and neighborhood programs, as a case study on the collaborative process between community activists, non-profit developers and organizations, and designers.
Location
Oakland, CA
Distance Learning
No
Course Equivalency
No
Subjects
Health, Safety and Welfare
Yes
Hours
1.25
Learning Outcomes
1. Explore engagement methods that effectively solicit local voices to develop an impactful community-based design.
2. Understand the developer's objectives and constraints and gain insight into how affordable housing financing impacts critical design decisions such as the programming of commercial, residential, and outdoor spaces.
3. Observe how landscape architects and architects blur the boundaries between disciplines in the design process to leverage each discipline's budget and elevate the greater whole.
4. Recognize how permanently affordable housing serves as a building block of society with exponential benefits, especially when community participation helps build stability and resiliency.
Instructors
1. Wendy Mok, PLA, ASLA, Director at GLS Landscape | Architecture2. Sam Moss, Executive Director, Mission Housing Development Corporation3. Orrin Goldsby, AIA, LEED AP, BD+C, Associate, David Baker Architects
Course Codes
NCC24-009
Provider
American Society of Landscape Architecture Northern CA Chapter


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