Housing and Community Design Award Winners

From: HUD USER News
 
A jury of knowledgeable design, community planning, and
housing professionals representing The American Institute
of Architects (AIA) and the U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development (HUD) has selected four outstanding
projects as national models of affordable housing.
Recipients of the AIA/HUD Secretary's Housing and
Community Design Award for excellence in residential
housing design are:
 
The Bridge (Homeless Assistance Center of Dallas, Texas)
 
The Bridge won the 2009 Community-Informed Design Award,
which recognizes design that supports physical
communities in rebuilding social structures and
relationships weakened by outmigration, disinvestment,
and the isolation of inner city areas. Widely accepted by
the homeless, a facility designed for 400 now handles up
to 1,000 people a day, and more than 500 individuals have
received training, counseling, secured employment or
permanent housing. Results are tangible and the
surrounding neighborhood is revitalizing; crime has
declined by 18 percent.
 
Project Place - Gatehouse of Boston, Massachusetts
 
Project Place won the 2009 Creating Community Connection
Award, which recognizes projects that incorporate housing
within other community amenities for the purpose of
either revitalization or planned growth. Project Place is
a new six-story, mixed-use building developed by a
nonprofit agency that offers job training, work
experience, education, housing, and support services to
men and women experiencing homelessness.
 
Bridgeton Neighborhood Revitalization of Bridgeton, New Jersey
Irvington Terrace of Fremont, California
 
Bridgeton Neighborhood Revitalization (BNR) and Irvington
Terrace both won Excellence in Affordable Housing Design
awards. This award recognizes architecture with overall
design excellence that responds to the needs and
constraints of affordable housing. BNR used HOPE VI funds
to revitalize an historic urban neighborhood by erecting
period-design housing on carefully chosen scattered sites
that had become physical barriers to pedestrian/social
connectivity and often acted as havens for illegal
activity. Irvington Terrace, a 100-unit low-income rental
housing development, uses progressive modernist forms in
the context of a traditional village square-like
development. Apartments feature stoops and porches to
encourage resident interactions and are oriented to the
square, which offers amenities such as a swimming pool;
fountain; and sunny, shaded, planted areas.
 
More information on these winners and the Secretary's
Award program is located
at https://www.huduser.gov/portal/about/housingCommDesign_2009_1.html.
 
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