Brad Pitt’s foundation unveils 14 duplex designs for New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward- 7/2/2009 11:06:00
The foundation wanted each design to be unique in style, yet still meet basic standards for flexibility, affordability, integration with the street, and landscaping as a design and energy element. For instance, a number of the designs feature interchangeable floor plans that allow the families to change the size and configuration of the two homes as their family size, needs, or economic situation changes.
The homes are elevated to avoid flooding, and many of the designs include courtyards, interior gardens, and social use of the area under the elevated house. To cut costs, several architects stacked the houses to reduce the footprint of the home and simplify construction.
Read about all 14 duplex designs at: http://makeitrightnola.org/mir_SUB.php?section=homes&page=duplex
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- slovelett
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that is so awesome.
i don't get how people can hate on brad and angelina when they do stuff like this!
at least SOMEONE is doing SOMETHING.i just hope they're not as shoddy as those Extreme Home Makeover houses...
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- pnuttbuttajelli
- 4 months ago
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Been following this for a while. I suggest buying some of the gear on the site. Pricey but ecofriendly and going toa good cause.
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Hear hear Mr. Pitt! What a lovely deed! My friends from Louisiana are very appreciative, I bet.
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- lolitanimatronic
- 4 months ago
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Its nice to see this kind of kindness when Brad could just sit back and be a greedy fool but he has chosen to help with humanitarian deeds. Nice job Brad you deserve much credit, if more people had your attitude, what a different and better place the world would be.
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I just wish these green builders would get away from the ugly flat stucco office-building-looking corrugated metal houses. New Orleans is full of beautiful, classic homes - why haven't the architects incorporated any of that beauty into their designs?
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How about a few watertight rooms? How about pole homes where the home floats as the water rises? How about a power source in each home for the NEXT KATRINA hhmmm? Design shmezine, will people live the next time and have clean water til it's restored or not?
Interior gardens won't help squat in the next storm, and there will be next storms. A great effort by Brad & Family, truly monumental and wonderful, but without a power source in EACH HOME all the King's Horses and all the King's Men's Architects have fallen way short of the task. Including William McDonough.
As I recall, Katrina didn't smack New Orleans with full hurricane damage. It was the crumbling levee walls letting water past that did them in. If they get a real hurricane Category 4 or 5 these homes will just be another pile of garbage to be carted off in dump trucks.
What all those world class architecture students really were trying to accomplish was make new home designs they could sell all around the country, as usual sniffing up the rear of a bucket of money (Fame, Recognition) like all architects do.
THEY LET BRAD PITT DOWN. THEY LET NEW ORLEANS DOWN. AGAIN.
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- Gravity_Man
- 4 months ago
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