The architect’s role in social housing

From direct and extensive experience working with affordable housing societies, residential cooperatives and government agencies, we have a practical understanding of how the stock of affordable housing units in the lower mainland is developed and maintained.

It is due to this experience that we believe that architects and building science firms can, and should, provide leadership in the creation of value driven processes leading to new prototypes for social housing, in terms both of design and financing.

On May 7, Terra Shimbashi will lead a presentation and round table discussion at the Annual General Meeting of the AIBC (Architectural Institute of British Columbia), focusing on how to better define the gap between available transitional housing (single room occupancy) and permanent co-operative or market rate housing. The discussion will consider how this growing challenge can be met.

The intent of the presentation will be to:

• Review the current models of affordable housing;
• Understand how current models impact building users and the community;
• Consider the key value drivers for a more socially responsible architecture;
• Envision new partnerships working towards a new prototype of social housing.

 

We will be inviting a range of people with a wide variety of expertise to comment on the ideas in the presentation, and will present their thoughts, experiences and considerations on this site.

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