Building Ownership: 

Manufactured Housing and an Architecture of Affordability

Public opening date : June / TBA

Location: Trade Design Build / 1520 Trumansburg Road (Rt. 96), Ithaca, NY

This exhibition, Building Ownership : Manufactured Housing and an Architecture of Affordability, highlights a selection of design proposals from ARCH 5114, Integrative Design Practices Studio / Building Ownership, a semester long Cornell AAP course led by Felix Heisel + Michael Jefferson. Building Ownership is an investigation of the potential of manufactured homes as an affordable pathway to homeownership : organized in 2 scenarios, a single-wide home parked on an existing lot in the current settings of MingleWood Park near Trumansburg, and a 13-unit park extension investigating the potential of the developed typology in a neighborhood setting. 

Each of the twelve design proposals include different scales and aspects ranging from community / neighborhood planning to wall sections, material selection and HVAC implementation. These designs also consider the special legal, financial and spatial constraints and opportunities of manufactured homes as a typology for affordable residential construction. 

With the presentation of this exhibition, Building Ownership, we hope to foster community interest and conversation regarding new possibilities for affordable ownership of manufactured housing.

Project proposals by : Anna Cao, Francesca Cedro, Tanqing (Pyros) Cheng, Guanyu Feng, Lydia Gu,Brooke Kenworthy, Moshe Kruger, Eujin Lee, Suhyeon Lee, Erica Li, Simran Maredia, Meghan Palmer, Wenjia Shen, Sophia Zaita, Bowen Zan, Russell Zeng, Colleen Zeugin, Kerui Zhang, Mileur Zhang, Haoning Zhao, Haosheng Zhao, Yuwen Zhao

Community partners: Gideon Stone, Trade Design Build; David West, Tompkins County Dept. of Planning & Sustainability; Ben Gould, MingleWood Park