The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, January 17, 1997 Page: 9 of 16
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the Rice chafer of Habitat
for Humanity has moved to-
ward its goal of sponsoring
and building a home in Houston. On
Jan. 25, they will achieve that goal
when construction begins on the
Rice-Andersen House.
The house, funded by contribu-
tions from Andersen Consulting and
other private donors, will be con
structed in a community of Habitat
homes in the Woodglensubdivision
in northeast Houston.
The home is the result of coop-
eration between the Habitat chap-
ter. the Rice Development office and
the Department of Architecture.
Each is responsible for a separate
part of the process.
Twelve architecture students,
ranging from sophomores to gradu-
ates, developed the house as part of
a course focused on the design of
housing for a low-income family.
Habitat Architecture Coordina-
tor and junior architecture student
Jane Kim helped to establish the
class. It was taught by Visiting Pro-
fessor Danny Samuels and Associ-
ate Professor Gordon Wittenberg.
The Architecture Department
has a policy of allowing students to
pursue an area of interest related to
architecture if there is a faculty spon-
sor as well as enough students par-
ticipating. However, the course is
an elective and does, not count to-
ward the architecture major.
Kim saw the opportunity to help
not only Habitat but also the archi-
tecture students.
""Sometimes we tend to get
trapped in Anderson [Hall)," she
said. "This is a way to get architec-
ture students back into the commu-
nity."
Originally the class developed
two designs for the 1,100 square-
loot three-bedroom home — a two-
story and a one-story.
The design that the class selected
(see below) improves on the stan-
dard Habitat design. Unique to the
Rice-Andersen house are space-effi-
cient techniques that allow a large
front porch and a back patio.
"We wanted to create an outdoor
space where the family could be in
touch with the community," Kim
The development office and Vice
President for Student Affairs Zenaido
Camacho have thrown their support
behind the project, contacting po-
tential donors.
Andersen Consulting has do-
nated $10,000 of the estimated
$40,000 cost, Private donations and
additional corporate donations are
expected to make up the difference.
The Habitat chapter is coordinat-
ing the third part of the task, the
actual construction of the house.
Chapter coordinator Kevin
Murphy is hoping that support
comes from all parts of the Rice
community.
According to Murphy, the Alumni
Association has reserved two days
of construction. Sid Richardson Col-
lege, the South Asian Society, Jones
College, Lovett College, the School
of Cont inuing Studies and the Class
of '99 Unity Task Force have each
reserved a day. The Rice Student
Volunteer Program plans to include
two trips to the site during its spring
Outreach Day.
"We are hoping to fill as many
days up with groups, such as resi-
dential colleges land) departments,"
Murphy said.
Support has been strong, but
wjthout additional groups. Murphy
thinks the house may fall behind
schedule.
"We still need many more groups
to sign up for a shift or a day if we're
going to build this comfortably in 14
weeks," he said. The project is ex-
pected to take only 12 weeks, but
Murphy has allowed a couple of
weeks for unexpected <ielays.
After this project, the Rice chap
ter of Habitat for Humanity hopes to
work with former President Jimmy
Carter's Work Project, which helps
build housing in cities throughout
the nation: WVtVi the help of Work
Project, Habitat for Humanity hopes
to build 100 homes in the Houston
area in one week.
Anyone who is interested in help-
ing with either of these projects
should contact the Rice chapter at
habitat@rice.edu. More information
can be found on the Habitat World
Wide Web page, located at http.
www. ruf. rice, edu/ habitat.
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Habitat for Humanity prides
itself upoh building simple,
quality homes that are sold
to low income families for
no profit. Families are
selected by need. Habitat
sees the houses as "a
hand up, not a hand out."
and encourages the people
residing in Habitat homes _,
to become responsible
homeowners and' members
of their community.
The floor plan for the Rice
Andersen House (left)
differs from the typical
Habitat house and is
simple but comfortable
three bedrooms, one bath,
a kitchen, a living room and
a porch.
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