- Area: 1185 ft²
- Year: 2016
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Photographs:Joshua White
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Manufacturers: Green Earth Nano Science inc., James Hardie, Simpson Strong Tie
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Structural Engineer: Nous Engineering, Matthew Melnyk, Stephanie Miyata
Text description provided by the architects. The IVRV house is the result of a collaboration between Southern California Institute of Architecture and Habitat for Humanity. It represents the mergence of two complimentary missions; to educate Architects who will imagine and shape the future and to provide simple, decent, affordable housing for all. The house is intended to challenge the status quo of sustainable / affordable housing in both form and content. The student designed and constructed house strives to answer a typical residential program in an unexpected way. The collaboration began with a studio at SCI-Arc in September of 2014. Through a kind of competition process the IVRV design was selected from a field of 16 student projects. The student designed, developed and constructed project, led by faculty member Darin Johnstone, was completed in the spring of 2016.
