Senior Project

HabiTECH is a partnership with Habitat for Humanity and the School of Architecture. Sixteen 4th year students have designed and built a sustainable home for the Hargrove family.

The design process consisted in the sixteen students to design a house and submited their designs to choose. My conceptual design was chosen and then as a group we finished the design and construction documents. The design of the home focuses on passive strategies (daylighting, shading, and natural ventilation) while also incorporating solar panels to reduce energy use and operating cost of the home. Materials in the home have been selected based upon life-cycle cost analysis and maintenance over the life of the home. Through the building of this home, we promoted sustainable design while also raising the standard for low-income housing in Ruston.