For three weeks in the summer of 2010, seven third-year architecture students at Kansas State University undertook a competition under my direction. Entitled the USGBC Natural Talent Design Competition, the students were tasked with designing an 800 square foot house for elderly residents in the Broadmoor neighborhood of New Orleans, LA. In addition, the house needed to meet the requirements for LEED for Homes Platinum certification, stay within a $100,000 construction budget, and use universal design principles throughout. The following publication, developed and assembled by the students, documents not only the outcomes of the studio, but the process that lead to these outcomes as well.
