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    The Pod

    Amedeo Bettauer

    The Pod

    Caroline + Amedeo

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    Amedeo's Brief: ‘The Pod’ is a project creating comfortable, livable tiny homes for formerly incarcerated individuals. These homes are part of a larger community that aims to solve the problem of lack of support for incarcerated people who have recently entered society. Unemployment rates for reentrants today are higher than U.S. unemployment rates during the Great Depression. This lack of support often leads to recidivism (re-entering prison after being released), with 79% of released state prisoners being rearrested within 5 years. This project seeks to solve this by combining cozy living spaces with a socially and economically supportive community to provide a better environment for newly released incarcerated people.

    Caroline's Brief: The Pod is a comfortable and private space for formerly incarcerated people who are returning to society. Previously imprisoned people are sequestered from housing, employment, and society because of credit checks. Due to their status it is hard to obtain loans, credit, and open bank accounts. This causes the state prisoner recidivism rate to be around 68 percent  within the first three years after release. The Pod provides people recently released from the prison system with a permanent living space that allows them to get back on their feet. Reentry often causes people to feel isolated and unwanted. Having a place that is a part of a small community to call home  will allow formerly incarcerated people to feel supported as well as ease some of the stress of getting back on their feet.

    Aura

    Kunal Botla

    Aura incorporates the indoors to the outdoors through window placement and scale focused on bringing in light into the home. Through plants thriving off the light brought in, the home is further connected to the outdoors in its most public spaces. The home uses light to bring comfort and the placement of windows to create privacy and combined linear flow of most private–the bedroom–to most public–with the open living, dining, and kitchen space.


    Designed for the Ahimsa Collective and Oakland City Challenge, Aura takes note of the details and elements most important to the comfort of those who were formerly incarcerated.

    Tiny Homes

    Jere Nierenberg

    TINY HOMES

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    Tiny Houses is an architectural project focused on the development of a site in Oakland, California. The site is designed to be a community area to house and aid the previously incarcerated. A major part of the design is tiny houses, mobile housing facilities that are designed to house previously incarcerated people while they work to get back on their feet. 


    The project uses architecture methods and the study of neuroarchitecture to design the environment to be comfortable and relaxing for the users. Elements such as natural light were used to create a dynamic environment while variable space maximized the storage and living space within an area. Integrating nature is important for the user’s mental well-being as well as keeping the space alive and comfortable.

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    Hide and Kody White

    Vitality 12

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    Aura

    Kunal Botla and Audrey Ha

    Aura incorporates the indoors to the outdoors through window placement and scale focused on bringing in light into the home. Through plants thriving off the light brought in, the home is further connected to the outdoors in its most public spaces. The home uses light to bring comfort and the placement of windows to create privacy and combined linear flow of most private–the bedroom–to most public–with the open living, dining, and kitchen space.


    Designed for the Ahimsa Collective and Oakland City Challenge, Aura takes note of the details and elements most important to the comfort of those who were formerly incarcerated.

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    Aveen Nagpal and Anna Gardner

    The Pod

    Amedeo Bettauer and Caroline Verdi

    The Pod

    Caroline + Amedeo

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    Amedeo's Brief: ‘The Pod’ is a project creating comfortable, livable tiny homes for formerly incarcerated individuals. These homes are part of a larger community that aims to solve the problem of lack of support for incarcerated people who have recently entered society. Unemployment rates for reentrants today are higher than U.S. unemployment rates during the Great Depression. This lack of support often leads to recidivism (re-entering prison after being released), with 79% of released state prisoners being rearrested within 5 years. This project seeks to solve this by combining cozy living spaces with a socially and economically supportive community to provide a better environment for newly released incarcerated people.

    Caroline's Brief: The Pod is a comfortable and private space for formerly incarcerated people who are returning to society. Previously imprisoned people are sequestered from housing, employment, and society because of credit checks. Due to their status it is hard to obtain loans, credit, and open bank accounts. This causes the state prisoner recidivism rate to be around 68 percent  within the first three years after release. The Pod provides people recently released from the prison system with a permanent living space that allows them to get back on their feet. Reentry often causes people to feel isolated and unwanted. Having a place that is a part of a small community to call home  will allow formerly incarcerated people to feel supported as well as ease some of the stress of getting back on their feet.

    Building Neighbors Final Presentation

    Declan McEnerney

    Building Neighbors

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