CASE STUDIES AND VIDEOS

CASE STUDIES

• Sustainable Northern Shelter: The project consists of twenty-four (24) single family “next generation” Sustainable Northern Shelter (SNS) affordable single family homes in six (6) villages throughout the North Slope region. The project was specifically developed to address the need for sustainable rural housing for northern climates utilizing a simply constructed home that uses very little water or energy.
• Fond du Lac Veterans Supportive Housing Case Study in Sustainability (Published Oct. 2015)

VIDEOS: Sustainable Native American Housing Projects (Produced July 2013)

• The Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribal (PGST) Housing Authority designed and built the Teekalet Village at a key location adjacent to historic salmon fishing grounds on the Puget Sound. The carefully designed site protects a salmon spawning creek, a tribal hatchery, and the historic waterfront at Point Julia.
• The Puyallup Nation’s Place of the Hidden Waters, located on traditional Puyallup tribal lands on a hill overlooking the Puget Sound tidal flats, offers a culturally and environmentally responsive new housing model for the Puyallup Tribe in the Pacific Northwest. The design, which achieved LEED for Homes Platinum certification, emulates the rectangular, shed-roofed form of a traditional Coast Salish longhouse, using a variation of the modern townhouse courtyard building.
• The Penobscot Indian Nation Housing Authority (PINHA) built 12 Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold rated single‐family homes. The Penobscot LEED Homes has helped bring young, low‐income families back to the community, reuniting them with a strong cultural and traditional heritage embodied by a nature path, native plants, a forest, a boardwalk to the village, sweat lodges, and ceremonial multiuse space.
• The Crow Nation’s  Apsaalooke Nation Housing Authority's Awe’‐Itche Ashe, Good Earth Lodges project is the culmination of a research and development project funded by the Office of Indian Energy and Economic Development, with three primary objectives: to determine whether the raw materials needed for compressed earth blocks could be found on the Crow Indian Reservation, if the blocks could withstand Montana's extreme climate, and if a tribal workforce could be assembled to carry out the program. With technical assistance from the University of Colorado Boulders' MCEDC, the project is succeeding in proving these assertions