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Upcoming Events
Fabrica Workshop
Workshop July 14-17 2008
Treviso, Italy
Ecovillage Design Practicum Fundamentals of Sustainable Village Design
July 18-24, 2008
Ecovillage Training Center,Tennessee
Biloxi Model Home Celebration
July 19, 3:00 pm
Biloxi, Mississippi
Fortune Brainstorm Tech 2008
July 21-23, 2008
Half Moon Bay, California
Myanmar Rebuilding Appeal
Architecture for Humanity is raising funds to support reconstruction
efforts.
Our work will focus on rebuilding sustainable clinics, schools,
community centers and other critical infrastructure as well as housing.
Please help us rebuild communities and lives.
Support sustainable reconstruction.
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Hurricane Katrina
Architecture
for Humanity is working to connect families and individuals who have
been displaced by Hurricane Katrina with architects and designers who
can help them to untangle complex new building codes and FEMA
elevations, make decisions about their future, and ultimately empower
them to re-envision their homes, businesses and communities. Below are
just a few of the many projects that architects with Architecture for
Humanity are undertaking.
Projects in Progress:
Biloxi Model Home Program
Location: Biloxi, Mississippi
Owner: various
Design teams: various (click here to see a list of participating design firms)
Project partners: Biloxi Relief Recovery and Revitalization Center, Gulf Coast Community Design Studio
Architecture
for Humanity is sponsoring the design and construction of a number of
demonstration homes in East Biloxi.This fully-funded pilot program aims
to assist families committed to rebuilding on their property by pairing
them with architects, engineers and design professionals and others who
can help them answer such basic questions as: Is it safe to rebuild on
my lot? How will the new flood map elevations and building codes affect
me? And, if I rebuild, what can I afford to build?
Families will be paired with a team of professional designers who will
work with them one-on-one to design a new home for their property that
will not only be affordable but will also be sustainable and meet the
area's new building requirements. The pilot program is unique in that
it offers families the opportunity to work one on one with architects
and design professionals giving them access to expertise and design
talent. Architecture for Humanity launched the program with a House Fair, where families were able to meet and choose the design firm of their choice.
Calhoun Photography Studio and Residence
Location: Flood Street, New Orleans
Owner: Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick Calhoun
Design team: John Dwyer, Shelter Architecture | AFH-Minnesota
Project partners: Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans; Shelter Architecture
Keith
Calhoun and Chandra McCormick Calhoun are professional photographers.
For years they taught community photography classes at a photography
studio based in a storefront next to their home. Exhibitions at the
gallery featured the work of local photographers and chronicled the
life and times of the neighborhoods in the 9th Ward of New Orleans,
some of which was featured in publications such as Reflections in
Black. The studio was a repository of local history, including hundreds
of photographs that documented the city's architectural history. The
force of Hurricane Katrina and subsequent levy breaches and flooding
caused both the couple's home and their photography studio and gallery
to collapse, destroying years of work.
Keith
and Chandra have been able to rescue some but not all of the thousands
of negatives that were stored in the studio and are determined to
return. Architecture for Humanity has committed to providing design
services to help them envision a new studio on the same site and
rebuild.
The Greater Little Zion Baptist Church
Location: Biloxi, Mississippi
Projects: The Greater Little Zion Baptist Church
Design team: TBD
The Greater Little Zion Baptist Church, located at 5130 Chartres
Street, was founded in 1900. Located in the historic neighborhood of
Holy Cross in New Orleans’s Ninth Ward, the small wooden church,
constructed in 1916, was damaged by the flooding that inundated the
Lower Ninth Ward and Holy Cross communities following the breach of the
Industrial Canal levee. Given the severity of the damage in the Lower
Ninth Ward neighborhood, Reverend Scie believes the recovery of many
churches will take years. In the meantime, he and his congregation hope
to repair and expand their church by adding classrooms and
incorporating the existing fellowship hall into the new structure.
Architecture for Humanity is providing design services to the church.
Saloy House
Location: New Orleans Street, New Orleans
Owner: Mona Lisa Saloy
Design team: Maureen Ness, AFH-Minnesota
Mona Lisa Saloy outside her home. Photo by Tracy Nelson/Architecture for Humanity
This project came out of our work with Heritage Conservation Network.
Architecture for Humanity and Maureen Ness with AFH-Minnesota are
helping long-term New Orleans resident and poet Mona Lisa Saloy (author of Red Beans and Ricely Yours)
return home. The project entails assisting her with determining
appropriate elevations, permitting, and helping her elevate and
redesign the existing structure. Preliminary plans have been drafted
and the project is now waiting surveying and permitting.
View the design:
Gulf Coast Community Design Studio
Location: Biloxi, Mississippi
Projects: Various
Design team: Gulf Coast Community Design Studio
Project partners: Biloxi Relief Recovery and Revitalization Center
Plans by D. Jason Pressgrov, Gulf Coast Community Design Studio
Architecture
for Humanity is pleased to support the work of the Gulf Coast Community
Design Studio. The Gulf Coast Community Design Studio is an outreach of
Mississippi State University School of Architecture
and uses professional faculty and staff to provide design assistance to
the communities along the Gulf Coast that have been impacted by
Hurricane Katrina. The overall mission of the studio is to provide
leadership and design assistance to the Mississippi Gulf Coast
communities. The community design studio will work with the Biloxi
Relief Recovery and Revitalization Center to help families in East
Biloxi re-envision and rebuild their community. Early on their work has
focused on mapping the neighborhood. Today, they are working on
providing design services to families repairing and reconstructing
homes.
Completed Projects:
Preserving Homes in New Orleans
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana and Bay St. Louis, Mississippi
Projects: Various
Project partners: Heritage Conservation Network
Begun
just three months after the storm, the goal of this project was to help
families and train volunteers in gutting and de-molding some of the
city's precious building stock with an eye towards historic
preservation. A small grant to the Heritage Conservation Network
enabled them to bring down a number of volunteers who assisted
homeowners in gutting homes and businesses. By halting the spread of
mold, the project helped preserve the structures. The project also
helped jump start reconstruction by showing owners that it would be
possible to repair these historic structures and helping them
understand the reconstruction process that lay ahead.
Laundry Design/Build
Location: Waveland, Mississippi
Implementing Partners: New York Says Thank You
Design team: Mark Lescher and David Vilkama, University of Minnesota College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Over
Spring Break 2005 students of the University of Minnesota made life a
little bit more livable for Kathy Everard and her daughter by building
a laundry room addition to their FEMA trailer. There were no working
laundry facilities in the area. The addition also doubled as a storage
area relieving the Everard's cramped space inside the trailer.
Neighborhood Cluster Initiative:
Location: Bay St. Louis, Mississippi
Implementing Partners: World Shelters
Design team: World Shelters
