Design Studio as Intergrated Living Lab for Climate Justice: Houston

Practitioners, local leaders and agencies in Texas are working together with the undergraduate architecture students at Prairie View A&M University (Historic Black College and University) through a unique service learning program to explore and propose architectural design solutions for the looming push of climate gentrification in historically segregated neighborhoods. Several projects are on the boards to be built as small footprint, scalable, design-build demonstrations. The student designs showcase sustainable building strategies informed through the U.S. Department of Energy, Race to Zero student competition, building science and sustainable building courses, and research of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Fortified Home construction standards. The integrated design studio, Living Lab for Climate Justice, at the School of Architecture, Prairie View A&M University, is rooted in environmental justice and service learning, as a framework for weaving culture, climate and ecology into long-term housing solutions for post-disaster communities facing sustained environmental injustice in the Gulf Coast.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.108.126

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978-1-944214-26-5