| dc.description.abstract | Foster Care is an extremely prevalent thing in today’s
society. On any given day, there are nearly 424,000 children in
foster care in the United States. In 2019, over 672,000 children
spent time in U.S. foster care. With these numbers, 1 in 4 foster
children become homeless after aging out of the foster care
system. This project will be focusing specifically on children/
young adults who become homeless after they age out of
the foster care system. I am wanting to design a space for
living but also create a sense of community. I want to give
opportunity to these young adults to have a place to finally
call home, even if it’s just for a year or two until they get steady
on their feet.
I don’t want this design to be similar to the typical
architecture of a shelter. I want to break stigma’s that are
usually held with shelters, low-income housing, etc. Rather
than designing with cheap materials, easy floor plans, and
minimal aesthetic, I want to design a welcoming, innovative
community. With this being said, I will be designing residential
as well as a commercial use community. I will be using factual
statistics to determine the best solutions as well as personal
interviews in order to get the best knowledge and information
out of my research. | en_US |
