This mixed-use, mixed-income urban housing landscape was designed for Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville who acquired a city-block sized site occupied by a trailer park.

The project will be fabricated almost entirely off site using a hybrid steel-frame/SIPs system. The individual building units consist of two road-legal halves per typical three-bedroom flat, which are then stacked by crane as complete three-story, three-family units on top of semi-buried, prefabricated, composite concrete basement vaults. Earth excavated for building foundations is redistributed as rolling landscape berms, creating a unified outdoor common space flowing around the individual house blocks. Dwelling units share a common geometric order defined by a superimposed agrarian orchard grid planted with fruitbearing shade trees, physically grounding the buildings, while simultaneously enhancing the rich symbolism of a community rooted in the local Jeffersonian earth.