GrowLofts
GrowLofts share food, energy, and conviviality without sacrificing household autonomy. It combines solutions to three challenges that are reaching tipping points: affordable housing, access to healthy food, and renewable energy. This social housing structure sandwiches eight 700 sf. urban lofts for short-and-long-term stays between a shared porch on the street edge—a 'hyperporch'—and a shared greenhouse on its garden side. GrowLofts combine solar collection, thermal mass, and insulation to capture and circulate energy using the temperature differentials between soil and air—an urban ark.
Bio The University of Arkansas Community Design Center is an outreach center of the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, and one of a few university-based teaching offices in the United States dedicated to delivering urban design work. Originated in 1995, the center advances creative development in Arkansas through design, research, and education solutions. Nationally recognized in public-interest design, the center has its own downtown facilities and 5-6 professional design/planning staff, some who also teach.
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