Students Create Safe and Sustainable Housing Community

Studio 804 is a yearlong, immersive course offered to students in the Masters of Architecture program at the University of Kansas School of Architecture & Design. It provides students entering their final year of the program the opportunity to design and construct a technically complex building. Under J.L. Constant Distinguished Professor of Architecture Dan Rockhill’s direction, students manage everything from creating construction documents and writing specifications to doing the site prep and entire ground-up build.

For their project, 18 students in the class of 2021 worked to provide a solution to challenges facing the community of Lawrence: establishing a safe space for people experiencing homelessness with COVID-19 to quarantine and creating temporary housing for families with children who are facing homelessness. Having previous experience with Atlas Roofing Corporation and its family of EnergyShield^® polyiso insulation solutions, Studio 804 again turned to Atlas to supply energy-saving, sustainable building envelope solutions for their temporary housing community in Lawrence, Kansas.