Study Architecture 
ProPEL 
Author(s): Kristen Zeiber
From 2014 through 2016, an architecture school in Northeast Ohio worked to rehabilitate a vacant house in Cleveland. The project was speculative: there was no client, only a hypothetical end buyer. The building chosen, a sturdy brick 1920s house, was abandoned, condemned, and had narrowly avoided demolition. The neighborhood, St. Clair-Superior, had a median household income of $19,000; a median home sale price of under $10,000; and dozens of other vacant houses within a block. Nevertheless, the design team believed in the potential for architecture students, stepping in where the private sector would not, to pool their creative energies and labor to create a project that could simultaneously teach the students about the real-world complications to their studio ideas and also deliver an attractive, market-friendly home back into the larger urban fabric of a distressed neighborhood.
https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.106.77
Volume Editors
Amir Ameri & Rebecca O'Neal Dagg
ISBN
978-1-944214-15-9
