Design Build Bluff

DesignBuildBLUFF is a non-profit organization based in Park City, Utah that designs and builds sustainable housing, and is noted for its award-winning and innovative home designs.^[1] It is named after Bluff, Utah where their campus facility is located and because of Bluff's close proximity to the Navajo Nation. Each year, graduate-level architecture students from the University of Utah College of Architecture and Planning, and more recently, The University of Colorado Denver, design and build a home for a member of the Navajo Nation, at no charge to the home recipient. The homes are built with sustainable architecture techniques and feature locally produced construction materials. The program is currently expanding to other universities in The Four Corners region.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7]}

History

DesignBuildBLUFF was founded in 2000 by University of Utah Professor, Hank Louis. The program is modeled on a design-build program at Auburn University, known as the Rural Studio, which was founded by Samuel Mockbee. In the Rural Studio model, students abandon the comforts of campus and home for a cooperative life, to learn about architecture through action. The design-build paradigm emphasizes experimentation, scale mock-ups, in-process design iterations, consensus-building through ideas and emotions, and juxtaposing diametrically opposed cultures.^[2][3][4]

Design and construction

The program emphasizes the design and construction of Navajo Nation homes using "green-build" techniques such as earthen plaster, rammed earth, passive solar, rainwater catchment, permaculture, straw bale construction, Icynene foam (a green, water-based, open-celled building insulation product), and materials salvaged from the landscape of the reservation itself such as substratum and reed from the local riverbed.

Design plans are formatted around donated and recycled materials such as windows, doors and appliances. Additionally, the homes are built from a unique Navajo Nation-produced Flex-Crete, a new concrete block product made with fibrous aggregate from the surrounding soil, thereby further reducing the need to import building materials. Building sustainable, off-grid homes that have little impact on the environment accomplishes for the Navajo Nation the mission of respecting the landscape while providing adequate housing.^[2]

Projects

2000 - Bandstand Project 2001 - Bend In the River Project 2002 & 2003 - The Kunga House

2004 - Rosie Joe House 2005 - Brian Johnson House 2006 - Caroline Lameman House 2007 - Dora and Baxter Benally House

2008 - ShipShop & BathHouse; Bluff campus renovation 2009 - Whitehorse House 2010 - Yanito House & Windcatcher House

Gallery

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  The Rosie Joe House

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  The Johnson House

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  The Caroline House

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  The Benally House

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  Rammed earth trombe wall built as part of a project

References

1. ^ DesignBuildBluff Wins Agency of the Year 2010 From the Utah Housing Coalition
2. ^ ^{a b c} University of Utah College of Architecture + Planning website, DesignBuildBLUFF.
3. ^ ^{a b} DesignBuildBLUFF: Drawing on two-by-fours
4. ^ ^{a b} Sustainable Homes for People Who Need Them
5. ^ Sustainably-built House by DesignBuildBluff in Navajo Nation-Southern Utah
6. ^ Students from the University of Utah Planning For And With Families Who Live Below the Poverty Line
7. ^ DesignBuildBluff Mission & Philosophy

External links

• University of Utah College of Architecture + Planning
  • DesignBuildBLUFF website
• The Rural Studio
• Design-Build Institute of America
• "An Architecture of Decency" Radio Program About Design-build.
• "Sustainable Homes For People Who Need Them"

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