Sustainable Modular Affordable Housing

Inspiration

To provide affordable housing to low-income Torontonians. In addition to providing self-improvement services to the inhabitants of these communities.

What it does

Our solution is sustainable and affordable modular housing. For a prefabricated, modular home, the components of the frame are built in assembly-line fashion in a factory, and the pieces are shipped to a construction site where the entire frame can be assembled in just a few hours.

How we built it

We developed our prototype using Blender, a 3D modelling program.

Challenges we ran into

Some challenges we ran into were learning the true scope of the issue. There are many factors playing into homelessness, so it goes without saying that the wickedness of this problem was beyond what we could define in our 8-min presentation.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of what we have learned and discovered not only about homelessness, but also about the nature of humans and our ability to connect with others. Humans thrive off positive communities, so we hope to foster these within our housing units. We also managed to design a housing unit in the span of 2-days!

What we learned

We learned more about what we have left to learn. Homelessness is such a vast topic and throughout the project we tried our best to focus on the project at play, but we discovered so much new information along the way. We learned about sustainable building materials, modular housing, tiny homes, building codes, and most importantly we learned about the planning involved in making affordable housing units a reality. Without non-for-profits, city planning, and community feedback, these units would not be possible.

What's next for Sustainable Modular Affordable Housing

We hope to take what we have discovered and develop our own personal projects to learn more about Green buildings and developing sustainable communities.