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• LifeArk
Housing Re-Imagined
1 Society at Crisis: HOUSING • Life Ark
• 1.6 billion people live in floating
slums or substandard housing
globally and 100 million are
homeless
• 82.4 million people worldwide
have been forcibly displaced as of
2020 as a result of persecution,
conflict, violence, human rights
violations?
• Displaced persons spend more
than 16 vears living as refugees in
temporary shelters?
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Climate Change Will Magnify Housing Crisis • LifeArk
• IPCC released a report on
climate change that United
Nation called a "code red for
humanity"
• By 2030, earth might have only
10% of its forests which will
accelerate global warming?
• Extreme weather events resulted
in 15,000 deaths and economic
loss of $170 billion in 20203
• Every 2 seconds, climate
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change is forcing someone from
their homes4
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Source: Ces aadyis of data som tha intemal Diplacemer Honib/ing Canne. http:/earth org/he-siges.ev/rpo/mentat/prob/ens.o/pur/retine/ • https://cleantechnica.com/2020/03/01/oxfam-every-2-seconds-climate-change 3 Our Planet is Drowning in Plastic Trash • Life Ark®
Our society has become addicted to single-
use or disposable plastic
• 300 million tons of plastic waste is
produced every year - equivalent to the
weight of the entire human population?
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incinerated and 79% end un in landfills
or natural environment where they stay
for centuries
• Plastic is an inexpensive, hygienic, and
extremelv durable material
• It's time to rethink of plastic not as a
disposable material but as a long-lasting
solution for another alobal problem - the
housing crisis
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LifeArk is at the Intersection of These Crises • LifeArk To help solve these crises Reimagine Housing that can... • Float on water or be constructed on land
• Use recycled plastic as raw material
• Withstand extreme disasters, such as earthquakes and
LIFEARK flooding
NEW WAY TO BUILD
• Be mass produced quickly and easily transported
SAVE LIVES SAVE PLANET
• Use simple tools to assemble and disassemble
HUMAN DISASTER PLANET • Be built on or off-grid with integrated solar, wind and sanitation systems
Have design flexibility like Lego to build one house or a master community
• Minimize maintenance costs while lasting over 50 years 5 LifeArk is a Radical Rethinking of Housing • Life Ark "LifeArk is a physical solution to vulnerable human living conditions caused y climate change, natural disasters, armed conflict, and economic disparity through a pre-fabricated, modular building system that can create self- sustaining aquatic or terrestrial communities."
- Buckminster Fuller Institute
Semi-Finalist For 2017 Fuller Challenge
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Innovation in Materials, Design & Manufacturing•LifeArk LifeArk innovations create a viable alternative to conventional construction - HDPU Foam Cere
DC 4.53.
MATERIALS DESIGN MANUFACTURING
• HDPE/PU foam panel for maximum • Kit-of-parts with Lego-like simplicity • Rotomolding makes mass production strength, thermal and sound allows easy assembly and possible at low capital investment resistance transportation
• Common plastic processing technology
• Pioneering use of plastic as load- • Application of nautical engineering but never used for housing construction bearing material in construction for complex structural criteria • Easily scalable for mass production • 30% of raw material can be recycled
plastic (PCR)
7 LifeArk El Monte Permanent Supportive Housing • LifeArk LA County Housing Innovation
Challenge award-winning project
The Los Angeles County
• 18 units for homeless + mgr's unit HOMELESS INITIATIVE • Low density = No NIMBY
• 14,805 SF lot size
• $3.6 million total project cost
• $189k per unit
• Designed to foster creation of
community that can help alleviate
social isolation
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LA PSH Total Development Costs • LifeArk
Cost/Unit
CCSM Berkeley Station $T74,457
Report sponsored by the United Way CRCD Ruth Teague • 5727934 WtH Lincoln Anto $685,806
of Greater LA's Home For Good Brilliant Corners Avalon $601,694 Funders Collaborative and USC's Weingart S Broadway |$593,750 PATH E 3rd St • S575,631
Homeless Policy Institute analyzed Weingart Santa Monica Blvd. • $561,722 CRCD Marcella Gardens • $543,571
development costs for 28 permanent Bridge NH $529,877
SRHT Confianza $524,797
supportive housing projects in LA • $522,264
SRHT Ambrosia $506,905
region: $504,314
Cilfford Beers Steps on St. Andrews $467,608
BCD Sherman way $465,912
• LifeArk El Monte had the lowest
FlyAway Homes Anaheim St $452,573
cost per unit at $189,294 FlyAway Homes Lagoon $449,150 DCD Vanowen St $444,676
VCH Merian Place • $430,497
• Median cost was $466,760/unit DCD Compton Ave $398,897 Genesis westake $346,822
Genesis W 62nd • $276,627
• Highest cost was $774,457/unit $256,277
Genesis S Figeroa $250,900
Roth Group Marine & ESt $220,935
Roth GroupS Vermont • $214,650
Roth Group E Vernon $205,836
LifeArk El Monte $189,294
$100,000 $200,000 $300,000 $400,000 $500,000 $600,000 $700,000 $800,000 N=28
Investigating Housing Models for Accelerating PSH Production", submitted to The Homeless Policy Institute & The United Way of Greater Los Angeles Home For Good by Abt Associates, March 17, 2022 9 LifeArk is HCD-Approved for Use as Shelter • LifeArk
• Single 8x8 module can be used as a
shelter LT TI
• Each unit can be assembled within
an hour
• Easily disassembled and relocated
• Simple foundation system allows for
use on dirt or parking lot
• Can be equipped with fire sprinkler
and HVAC
• Flexibility to configure on odd-
shaped lots
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Life Ark's Durability Allows for Use as Interim Housing • LifeArk • Two 8x8 modules can be used as
interim housing for longer stays
• Each unit has bathroom and
kitchenette
• Integrated fire sprinkler and HVAC
• Can be designed for individuals or
families of varying sizes
• Units can be clustered into
multiple configurations with a
courtyard community area
11 Shelter Module Can Progress to Permanent Housing • LifeArk By adding additional modules, LifeArk can incrementally progress from single- module shelter to interim housing to permanent housing
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Cost-Effective & Durable Shelter Solution • LifeArk
High under module crawl space allows for all
LA Tiny Home Cost Comparison utilities to run above the ground to minimize expensive trenching and in-ground site work
$94,126/unit
$62,278/unit
$69,717 74%
$28,542 46%
$25.042 40%
$12,669 13%
$11,739 12% $8.694 14%
Tiny Home AVG LifeArk
•Pre-Planning a Modules/Fixtures Site Work
hos lamarkoundation orin home Villages - per unit cost calculated assuming single occupancy per unit 13 LA City Interim Housing Project • LifeArk
Site Area: 16,340 SF
• Lot 1: 10,065 SF
• Lot 2: 6,275 SF
• Existing City Parking Lot
Alley
Focuite Unite
ADA Units
Admin/Flex
Laundry Unit
Trash
Dog Run
(OTa
Covered
Contes
Courtyard
Entry
• 33 Ensuite Units
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LA City Interim Housing Project • LifeArk
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