Healthy Communities:
Healthy Affordable Brooklyn Housing with STAT Architects + RiseBoro
All communities deserve access to healthy affordable housing.
In fall 2022, HML launched a new collaboration with Brooklyn AH nonprofit developer RiseBoro Community Partnership, Brooklyn NY, and STAT Architecture. In this project for 8 new and renovated Brooklyn affordable housing projects in the South Bushwick neighborhood, the developer and architects are working with HML to create lists of healthier affordable housing products to install better products in their projects. This list of better products will provide partners with a verified list of products that can be specified and installed in not just these projects but in all future projects.
The team recently added 51 units located in the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Bed-Stuy, Bushwick, and Ridgewood to the HML’s Building Healthy Homes initiative. The initiative aims to document healthy affordable units across the USA and increase accessibility to data and projects that are working to create healthier housing for those most vulnerable. Together, the team’s projects have transformed over 46,000 square feet of existing housing into healthy affordable homes. Given their exemplary work, STAT Architecture will be featured in the first installment of the Building Healthy Homes case study series.
New construction 8-unit residential building in Bushwick, Brooklyn
New construction 8-unit residential building in Bushwick, Brooklyn
We are finding that HML’s approach to the design, construction, and long-term management of the new building is in alignment with the development team’s goals and their intention to carry out the work on healthy materials not only during design and construction but also during occupation in a future building with educational programming for building management, supers and general tenant population. Through our own research and in our practice we have found that long-term change to create healthy buildings only comes about with support from the long-term stewards of the building—tenants and management working together.
We are pleased to record that Drew E. Vanderburg, Senior Project Manager for Riseboro and Parsons graduate, worked at HML on the early AH case studies. And Taleen Josefsson, Project Manager, STAT Architecture, NYC, and architect for the AH Projects graduated from HML’s online courses.
“Toxicity and low-embodied carbon materials are inherently intertwined. My personal choice would be to choose materials that don’t have a combination of bio-based and fossil-based materials. You can’t unscramble an omelet. ”
A Conversation with STAT Architecture’s Taleen Josefsson
Full interview with STAT Architecture's Taleen Josefsson as part of the Building Healthy Homes Case Study Series
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