AIAFORSHELTER

AIA Birmingham / Aletheia House
Design Competition (click here)

AIA4shelter is a small committee of the Birmingham Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The goal of the committee is to work towards reducing the number of homeless people living on the streets of Birmingham and surrounding areas. We are currently working in three main areas of focus.

• We are working with other organizations around the city to educate the public and increase awareness of the realities of homelessness and to help break down some of the barriers to potential solutions. Thus far we have participated in the Mayor’s Committee to Prevent and End Chronic Homelessness in creating the 10-year plan, and we are now working to help implement the plan.
• We are working with Metropolitan Birmingham Services for the Homeless and their member organizations to help them with front end programming and conceptual designs for new projects that come on-line.
• We are working with Alethiea House on a single family residential design competition that will be open to all AIA members and the public.