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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1992)
UNIVERSITY ' f ■&' •'V. \f This area of Villard Street mil be the site tor three experimental designs to bo used tor Ion-cost student housing. Profs design experimental housing By Koaiani Roberts Emerald Contributor A group of University professors has designed three experimental housing units it hopes vs ill serve .is models lor Oregon's wood industry. <is well as provide' inexpensive student housing i lie duplex type units were designed at the Center for Housing Innovation, .1 I.u nity research group begun four years ago All will be experi ments in building different types of factory pm dur ed homes Our goal is to help Lane County develop a pre-fabrication industry to build homes here and sin p (belli • I sew here said Dav d ( • inter. CHI d . rei tor "1 think tins absolutely Wl.i happen Corner cited japan and Hawaii as excellent p initial markets tm ..use land and home pines there are so - \pensive buyers t ■ I 1 Id save motley purchasing a house shipped from Oregon (dll m general is interested in lir.dmg ways to support a sustainable wood predicts industry that doesn't • ; resources : a rescan ti assistant at the center \\ - 'e working on material edit lent v and ways to get more boils ing with less wood CHI created the University experimental Hous mg drops I to researi h and design different types of industrialized housing All units are designed to lie inexpensive, ener gy etfit lent, accessible to the physically disabled and built on small lots to mi reuse land use densi ty , Merges said I he three units were designed as part of the Student Housing Props t. which includes building 20 apartments at tilth and Agate streets and even tually rebuilding Amazon family bousing University Housing officials hope construction will begin in August and fie completed for full term, but planners say this is ambitious Lath of the three buildings consists of two small two-bedroom, ono-huthroom upartments 750 square foot measured from outside the walls They will lie built on a vacant lot in the hast cam pus area near Villard Street. A one-story building will use single-stressed skin closed panels. This means one solid material with both structural and insulating properties would be user! for a wall, instead of the standard stud and frame construction that would require added insulation A one-and a-half story building will use con viMiliun.il wood training but ill tin- j ails vs 111 r • t.ii tors assembled. lhfti i niislrui led ..n site The third budding will I** a l\m story mml . I. i r hmiiii, i ompidtelv built .mil assembled m a l.n to ry hk.- a mobile hoiiu but set down without l.'a wheels or trailer This allows tin home to n ■ * *t building iode and neighborhood /.h i g n- , ore munis ol almost ,mv itv Thu modular second slorv of lilts third unit w . 1 tn- sot on a first slorv ol t om rote him ks insulated oil tin' outside and exposed on tin inside The bliM ks will ini ri'.isi- energy idfii iimii v by radiating heal collected during the day into 'hr a|iar!nirnt at night Hoyvrvrr i. .gene s Hold t I t it. .. make • actual mi rgy rthi ii'iii y it this t i.sirui In-*; ; ' rult to d ■ ■termini'. ( ornrr said In addition, Cornet said tin pro ahr: ail'd housing is a design experiment on- tfiai, ' ■ ; great financial sav mgs Hi* said bundit..*. inn nuts would hit y * : y rllit * :;! tint building any tl.ee is not Onr lesson tin* designers leaned t.hry a*i build all affordable and ecunomii.il ha.isr l ot outsidr i osts i|iiu kly add up. St urges .aid "It s not as much the design or the product that affects the tost so much as the planning and in frastructure." he said Tor example, the city requires they have a con i rote alley at ( ess poured to eu< h unit Tins drive way will t ost as mui h as one ol the six apart merits. Sturges said Also, although housing density is tin teased, fiVVKB still requires six separate ys.iter meters on the street with six separate water lines Multi unit buildings often have one line on the street, branching off to feed the individual units "We need a lot of redundant systems." Sturges said "There are over-engineered requirements we can t find a way of avoiding." The cost of the three buildings, including con struction. materials, engineering and permits, is expected to be S300.000. 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