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2013

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Quixote Village

This is a Project. It was architect: MSGS Architects and collaborator: Panza, Thurston County Commissioners and Camp Quixote residents. It is dated 2011–13.

Quixote Village offers a community-engaged approach to ending homelessness. A self-governing tent city of homeless adults, Camp Quixote, moved 20 times, finding sanctuary on places of worship throughout Olympia, Washington. Together with the local community and nonprofit Panza, camp residents raised funds and lobbied for land to build permanent supportive housing—and in the process changed a community’s perception about people experiencing homelessness. MSGS Architects, with residents, designed the 30 single-occupancy dwellings, common spaces, and site that make up the Village.

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This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition By the People: Designing a Better America.

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