Glavovic Studio, a Fort Lauderdale-based architecture firm, has teamed up with Florida Atlantic University’s School of Architecture in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest global HIV/AIDS organization and a longtime advocate for affordable housing.
This partnership aims to tackle America’s affordable housing crisis, with tens of millions of Americans considered “rent-burdened” and a shortage of over seven million affordable and available rental homes.
Image: Neo Hall by FAU students, Pedro Fernandes, Yuji Kitamura, Jerry Velasquez
By leveraging the Live Local Act, a new Florida law that allows certain properties to be rezoned for housing, FAU students have developed comprehensive architectural designs for specific South Florida sites. These designs serve as new models for adaptive reuse and sustainable living. Additionally, the students have created a guidebook to identify suitable vacant properties for affordable housing projects, putting adaptive reuse into practice.
This unique partnership brings together a leading academic institution, a global nonprofit organization, and a for-profit architecture studio to advance innovative solutions to the affordable housing problem in Florida and across the United States. By approaching the crisis from different perspectives, the three partners will work with FAU students to identify adaptive reuse opportunities and amplify the voices of the next generation in solving generational problems.
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