Photo of the Week: UMass Design Build Small House
UMass Design Build Small House. Photo: Anne-Marie Taylor.
The students of the UMass Architecture Department, under the direction of Professor Carl Fiocchi and the team at UMass Design Build have been constructing small houses from scratch for the last few semesters: small low-carbon or net-zero houses intended as affordable housing. This one — called Casita de Vida — is scheduled to join its neighbors in Holyoke in mid-November.
For more about UMass Design Build see their website: https://websites.umass.edu/umassdesbuild/
For more photos by Anne-Marie Taylor see: www.annemarietaylor.art
Our feature, Photo of the Week, presents each week, a new picture by a local photographer. We invite local photographers to share their photographs here. Please include a description/caption and an indication of who is to be credited.
“Little House of Life/Little House for Life” This is such a great project.
Great photo! Just a quick correction: This is actually a joint project of the UMass Department of Architecture, the Building and Construction Technology program, and the Five Colleges Architectural Studies program. Lead faculty are Carl Fiocchi, Rob Williams, and Naomi Darling.
Thank you both, Hetty Startup and Alexander Schreyer for the additional information! It is a wonderful project, indeed!
Here’s more:
And Ben Leinfelder 🙂
https://theamherstcurrent.org/2024/02/20/umass-designbuild-prototypes-adus-for-western-mass/
Great ideas and small home. I’m wondering how much this house would cost to build?
In new construction if you shrink the size you may not cut costs. The most expensive rooms are Kitchen, & Bathrooms. Eliminating the guest bedroom saves almost nothing. You still need the heating system, the two car garage, and all the same sub-contrators.