A design of a micro home created by Dalhousie University architecture student Mya Staubitzer.
A man who spent last winter living with homeless people in downtown Halifax is teaming up with Dalhousie University to design unique micro-homes.Dalhousie University architecture student Mya Staubitzer created this design of a micro-home in collaboration with homeless advocate Stephen Wilsack. A man who spent last winter living with homeless people in downtown Halifax is teaming up with Dalhousie University to design unique micro-homes.
"It is a structure that has a feeling," Wilsack said. "Even though it's a small space, it's large inside." Wilsack said the project started after James Forren, director of Dalhousie University's school of architecture, visited the Grand Parade tent encampment while he was living there last winter. Stotts, who teaches building technology, is also the principal of Stotts Architecture. He said he jumped at the opportunity to be involved in the project.
"The look and the shape and the feel was really driven by how could this thing be built quickly and by people who aren't necessarily trained and skilled labour," Staubitzer said. That will require collaboration between the public and private sectors and community leaders, and it will take everyone thinking differently about homeless populations in their communities, he said.
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