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12 architecture students. 1 client. 1050 square feet. 3 bedrooms. 1.5 baths. $60,000. 171 days.

This is who we are and what we are doing.

Here at the Louisiana Tech University School of Architecture, we have a design/build studio for 4th year students that begins in the Winter quarter and ends in Spring quarter. This year, there are 12 students that have the opportunity to work with Habitat for Humanity and a selected client from the community to design and build a home for the client in 171 days. If this sounds a little intimidating, you're right. It is. However, we are excited to begin the process and to be able to give back in a way that will affect the lives of the family indefinitely. This will be the eighth and final year for the habiTECH project and we hope to make it the best. We look forward to sharing the journey with our fellow bloggers and will be posting every week to update everyone on our progress!


To kick things off, we started school on Wednesday November 28 and visited the site. We were also divided into 4 teams of 3 to begin the design process. Each team was assigned to produce 4 iterations of models and floor plans to present by Friday. Below are photos of the site and the first pass at iterations for the home. The ideas are still schematic in form but will gain detail in the next couple of weeks.