Housing Advocacy
The Housing Advocacy Committee (HAC) addresses affordable housing and homelessness issues. Architects and other designers can be key players in this social problem and by joining this committee, you can help improve housing conditions in Minnesota. You can also assist in planning and participate in our annual Design Charrette which benefits local housing agencies, along with other activities. We are always looking for volunteers to participate on the committee, contact the AIA Minnesota office to get involved.
Chair: Dana Murdoch, AIA and Jackie Peck, Assoc. AIA
AIA Staff Liaison: Judith Van Dyne
Meeting Date: First Tuesday of the month at noon in the AIA Minnesota office
Search for Shelter Design Charrette
2010 Search for Shelter Charrette
More than 30 volunteers gathered on the weekend of February 12-14, 2010 for the 24th Search for Shelter Design Charrette. The charrette is an opportunity for experienced professionals, recent graduates and students to meet and help local non-profit housing organizations with design needs on proposed building projects. The charrette began on Friday evening at the College of Design with a brief presentation by Tim Bicknell, AIA, a project designer at AECOM Ellerbe Becket and former charrette participant. Bicknell worked on the design for a new entrance of a building occupied by YouthLink that will begin construction this Spring.
2010 projects included a redesigned façade for Aeon’s Buri Manor apartments, new lobby for People Serving People, development of an empty lot that will engaged the neighborhood for Urban Homeworks, Inc., Alliance Housing, Inc.’s goal to rehabilitate foreclosed multifamily property into a supportive housing program for the homeless and revitalizing Sparc’s vacant building into a thriving community asset.
2010 Search for Shelter Charrette Press Release (PDF)
2010 Final Project Boards
Aeon (PDF) (4MB, 3 pages)
People Serving People (PDF) (12MB, 6 pages)
Urban Homeworks (PDF) (12MB, 7 pages)
Alliance Housing, Inc. (18MB, 5 pages)
Sparc (4MB, 4 pages)
Previous Search for Shelter Charrettes
2009 Search for Shelter Press Release (PDF)
2008 Search for Shelter Press Release (PDF)
If you have questions about the charrette, please contact AIA Minnesota.
2009 Project Boards
Simpson Housing Services (PDF) (7MB, 7 pages)
180 Degrees (PDF) (16MB, 4 pages)
Lyndale Neighborhood Association (PDF) (4MB, 6 pages)
Plymouth Church Neighborhood Foundation (PDF) (22MB, 26 pages)
