The tenant of a newly built residence on a woodsy ridgeline in New Haven's Fairhaven Heights neighborhood will sleep in the treetops. A picture window in the bedroom offers views, through crisscrossing branches, of the city's skyline.
The elegant three-story abode, designed and built by first-year students at the Yale School of Architecture, will also allow the tenant to live rent free. Specifically, the project will become the home of an educator at Friends Center for Children, an organization that provides affordable early-childhood care and education in New Haven.
It is the latest accomplishment of the Jim Vlock First Year Building Project, a core element of the curriculum in the school's professional architecture degree program, which offers students the opportunity to design and build an affordable home within the city. It is the 59th structure designed and built for the greater good of the community since the Building Project's inception in 1967.
