Dignity Village – Transitional Housing Development

About This Project

Transitional Housing Development – Dignity Village

Recognizing a need for transitional housing in the Coachella Valley, this project will attempt to promote a design solution that will address some of the issues faced by a population “in transition”.  The project will explore a building type that provides accommodation for individuals and families in a development that contains individual and combined units providing some basic safe, secure shelter.  Further, the development will contain community support services in a single structure available to all residents in the development.

Site Selection and Analysis (Click here to view presentation)

Your chosen site (see Project Outline/Program) will be analyzed identifying opportunities and constraints, existing conditions, context and surrounding building configurations.  This analysis will include a description of zoning and development regulation requirements imposed on the site by the regulating jurisdictions. the analysis will be presented graphically outlining:

1. Existing Conditions – including zone and development regulations
2. Opportunities and constraints
3. Surrounding built environment configurations – buildings, infrastructure, landscaping
4. Environmental conditions and factors (sun, shade, shadow studies) including land forms and topography.

Programs used: Revit, Photoshop, and Illustrator.