From Shelter to Home

Systems thinking + The Growing houseless crisis

University of Oregon - Landscape Architecture Department

A collaboration with the University of Oregon Landscape Architecture department on a real world project, “From Shelter to Home” capturing the work with Opportunity Village, a tiny home community for the otherwise houseless. The partnership involved designs and screenprints seeking to deconstruct community and housing concepts and redefining the relationship between villagers and the environment.

Working with professor Jean Yang, the students were challenged to consider the aesthetics, ecology, culture and economy of the unique tiny home/gated/formerly houseless community to inform new frameworks, synergies, and implications for landscape architecture.

The project received the American Society of Landscape Architecture’s national student award.