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Over-the-Rhine DesignBuild Studio
Department of Architecture and Interior Design — Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

The Sharp Annex
						In the Spring of 1998, the students of the Over-the-Rhine DesignBuild Studio contributed design services to an application for Affordable Housing Tax Credit Financing by the Over-the-Rhine Housing Network, now Over-the-Rhine Community Housing, for a large development of forty units spread among eight existing structures and two new buildings. Working in teams, students documented the existing conditions of six buildings and proposed design solutions for the reuse according to state criteria. The Housing Network was successful in securing financing from the state due largely to the efforts of the students. Professional architects then took the design schematics proposed by the students and translated them into construction documents. The first units of the Sharp Annex opened for residency on February 1, 2000, with the final completion of the project taking place in December of 2000.