Comments on: Brad Pitt’s Make It Right presents duplex homes for NOLA

By: john wayne

john wayne — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:18:27 +0000

top shop

go A-team

By: Zaki

Zaki — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:49:06 +0000

Tell me something guys- If these people can’t afford living in single family houses why they don’t live in blocks of flats? This is how it works in Europe (I’m not talking about exclusive apartments). The second thing is- why do You keep building Your homes from “cardboard”? Don’t you know that if something is cheap and You want to build it fast it cannot be reliable.

By: Franklin

Franklin — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:38:15 +0000

check out the plasma tv’s in most of the model pictures…

By: ro po

ro po — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:20:09 +0000

Sorry if shotgun houses degraded into shacks.
This Old House redid a shotgun house in New Orleans several years ago. Stilt houses are not inherently bad, nor are premanufactured homes.
Raw materials turned into housing at a plant employing citizens would give the best home a dollar could build. Likely as not, stick built homes would require round the clock guards to protect materials and tools from ne’er do wells.
Come to think of it. Lack of highway overpasses may allow such homes extremely easy placement.

By: bo

bo — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:45:46 +0000

sorry, but the planning is really bad.

By: joe

joe — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:37:51 +0000

it’s a 150 houses … what are the new ways of living? It’s like the twisting tappering skyscraper, it’s not better becasue it looks cool, it has the same organization… same here there is no exploring and no new ways of living… and the case study homes these are not.

By: zga

zga — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:48:34 +0000

completely agree

By: Jacob Antoni

Jacob Antoni — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:12:49 +0000

i do agree with Terry Glenn Phipps! it is a great project and who else than someone famous (as brad pitt) could start this.

I also dont like most of the ideas cause of missing local caracter. I would also like to talk about the price for the concepts!

You can see all trough the city at the streetlevel? – In the netherlands they make houses which are flexible so they can swimm up/raise with the waterlevel, they are no boats!

By: Barker

Barker — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:00:39 +0000

Nobody is preventing architects and developers from building “normal” houses in New Orleans. These egos are being brought in not just to design houses, but to rouse public interest, spark discussion, and keep the spotlight focused on NOLA. From a functional standpoint, what will 8 or 12 houses do for the thousands displaced in the lower 9th? Much more could be accomplished by building non-descript track homes by the hundreds that mimic (no, mock) historic styles. But the idea here is to grasp this opportunity to explore new ways of building and living, with new technologies (yes, experimentation in some cases) so that design and building as a whole can progress in the city. Maybe not on the radical level of these dozen MIR homes, there is the potential here to do a lot of good. And the egos of Gehry, KT, MVRDV, etc. are needed for this purpose. Think of the Case Study Houses. Except in this case, it is in response to an actual need – a void.

By: The Digest. 07.08.09. at C-MONSTER.net

The Digest. 07.08.09. at C-MONSTER.net — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:37:57 +0000

[...] Design schemes for NOLA homes from Brad Pitt’s architectural foundation. [...]