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Community First! Village Micro House by McKinney York Architects


February 10, 2021
With a wood-clad interior and a butterfly roof, this compact home by Mckinney York Architects balances affordability, sustainability, and privacy.
Austin’s Community First! Village is a planned community that provides affordable housing and shared resources to those transitioning out of homelessness. The village features an array of micro homes designed by some of the city’s most acclaimed architects to be sustainable, attainable, and sensitive to resident lifestyles and it’s expanding with 310 additional dwellings, including a new home by McKinney York.
McKinney York partnered with BEC Austin, whom they worked with on phase one, to build the micro homes. With phase two, their goal was to make the design easy enough so that people who weren’t skilled laborers and were volunteers could take the drawing and build one themselves, McKinney says. With phase one, the houses were hard to pull off for anyone that wasn’t a carpenter. ....

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