With his Make It Right project in New Orleans, Pitt may be on his way to becoming architecture’s most important patron. Is architecture up for the challenge? Metropolis | related Archinect feature: The Pink Project
I cant understand what these people are doing in NOLA except delaying the recovery with their green bullshit. Green technologies are not yet ready for prime time on that scale. You cant just willfully experiment with 500,000 people.
Second - rebuilding the shotgun like shacks on the salvageable foundations and building dykes and berms with the rubble should have been priority #1. Get the place back to life. Many disasters are followed by a flurry of light, fast construction. In NOLA's case, the wood structures would easily last unti the next major flooding possibly beyond. A good chance the wood harvested would have been replenished by then.
Only when the economics and settlement issues are solved can you go on towards sustainability issues on the macro scale. This is all just Green Masturbation.
it could be argued that the simple frame house, on a lot with a bright green lawn, reiterated dumbly over and over again, bigger and dumber each time, is pretty much what led us to this particularly uninspired moment in time.
people can choose to listen to pitt and his friends or not. he is at least using his fame for something better than getting another big movie part. and he seems to enjoy what he's doing. more power to him.
if anything, it is acts like the sheer inanity of the local housing authorities to try to tear down perfectly functional low-income housing blocks that needs to be rallied against.
"f anything, it is acts like the sheer inanity of the local housing authorities to try to tear down perfectly functional low-income housing blocks that needs to be rallied against"
simple individual frame houses = bad
public housing blocks= good
Morphosis designed singl fam frame = good
evolved local vernacular = bad
evilp you did miss this: the project is reaching out to locals who can't afford to build *even* a simple local vernacular structure right now. They have no equity, few assets, minimal access to loans, etc.
Make It Right is, if I understand correctly, providing funding for them to build IF they build one of the provided designs.
So your equation is:
unaffordable vernacular: bad
buildable new design: good
PS I still think the MVRDV design is ricockulously bad, but many of the pothers are fantastic.
Not really - whats needed is the lowest cost mass housing model available - be it vernacular or more modernized version of a frame shotgun - get the area rebuilt en masse and get the cost down. By vernacular i dont mean style, I mean method - I forget these are "designers" around here.
I fear the celebrity and green speak surounding NOLA is drowning out common sense here. It actualy may be too late already. Most of the displaced peoples are already gone for good.
AP says "tell that to the people that will have or already have homes as a result of this effort."
The problem is that *no one* has a home because of this effort. They haven't built *a thing* yet.
The houses are too expensive to build. And I'm really curious to see if Brad comes back to pay for the repairs on the solar panels when they break, or if they families will just go without HVAC in the 110 degree NOLA summers.
It's well intended, but so far Make It Right is nothing more than a media circus.
So basically you're saying that instead of taking a little time to do it the right way, and trying to raise money for these people, we should give them substandard housing on purpose. That's what I'm hearing, right? How about those FEMA trailers with cancer-causing emissions? According to your logic, everyone should get these because they are quicker, correct?
What a bunch of backwards BS. Jumping on someone's case because they are trying to do it the right way but not quick enough. Why don't you go down there and build a house yourself, if it's not good enough for you? I suppose I will never understand some people's reasoning....
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I cant understand what these people are doing in NOLA except delaying the recovery with their green bullshit. Green technologies are not yet ready for prime time on that scale. You cant just willfully experiment with 500,000 people.
Second - rebuilding the shotgun like shacks on the salvageable foundations and building dykes and berms with the rubble should have been priority #1. Get the place back to life. Many disasters are followed by a flurry of light, fast construction. In NOLA's case, the wood structures would easily last unti the next major flooding possibly beyond. A good chance the wood harvested would have been replenished by then.
Only when the economics and settlement issues are solved can you go on towards sustainability issues on the macro scale. This is all just Green Masturbation.
tell that to the people that will have or already have homes as a result of this effort.
and delaying recovery?! give me a break.
So this is a success? Not being able to rebuild 500,000 homes is a good thing? Our priorities are all mixed up.
The simple frame house it could be argued IS environmentaly sensible, cheap to build and capable of housing the displaced masses.
So you could blame Bush for not rebuilding.
Or you can blame the green socialists for not letting the city displaced wards rebuild.
Or you can blame the country for having its head up our asses - that we listen to an actor over profesionals - is truely disgusting.
it could be argued that the simple frame house, on a lot with a bright green lawn, reiterated dumbly over and over again, bigger and dumber each time, is pretty much what led us to this particularly uninspired moment in time.
people can choose to listen to pitt and his friends or not. he is at least using his fame for something better than getting another big movie part. and he seems to enjoy what he's doing. more power to him.
if anything, it is acts like the sheer inanity of the local housing authorities to try to tear down perfectly functional low-income housing blocks that needs to be rallied against.
uhm and unto something completely different - nice pictures!!
"f anything, it is acts like the sheer inanity of the local housing authorities to try to tear down perfectly functional low-income housing blocks that needs to be rallied against"
simple individual frame houses = bad
public housing blocks= good
Morphosis designed singl fam frame = good
evolved local vernacular = bad
Did I get this right?
evilp you did miss this: the project is reaching out to locals who can't afford to build *even* a simple local vernacular structure right now. They have no equity, few assets, minimal access to loans, etc.
Make It Right is, if I understand correctly, providing funding for them to build IF they build one of the provided designs.
So your equation is:
unaffordable vernacular: bad
buildable new design: good
PS I still think the MVRDV design is ricockulously bad, but many of the pothers are fantastic.
Not really - whats needed is the lowest cost mass housing model available - be it vernacular or more modernized version of a frame shotgun - get the area rebuilt en masse and get the cost down. By vernacular i dont mean style, I mean method - I forget these are "designers" around here.
I fear the celebrity and green speak surounding NOLA is drowning out common sense here. It actualy may be too late already. Most of the displaced peoples are already gone for good.
It would be a great economic stimulus to the Construction industry
evilplatypus...you are in deed, evil
AP says "tell that to the people that will have or already have homes as a result of this effort."
The problem is that *no one* has a home because of this effort. They haven't built *a thing* yet.
The houses are too expensive to build. And I'm really curious to see if Brad comes back to pay for the repairs on the solar panels when they break, or if they families will just go without HVAC in the 110 degree NOLA summers.
It's well intended, but so far Make It Right is nothing more than a media circus.
So basically you're saying that instead of taking a little time to do it the right way, and trying to raise money for these people, we should give them substandard housing on purpose. That's what I'm hearing, right? How about those FEMA trailers with cancer-causing emissions? According to your logic, everyone should get these because they are quicker, correct?
What a bunch of backwards BS. Jumping on someone's case because they are trying to do it the right way but not quick enough. Why don't you go down there and build a house yourself, if it's not good enough for you? I suppose I will never understand some people's reasoning....
I think we should use pink shelters (and really do hope these are temporary shelters), whenever there is a natural disaster.
There’s nothing more that I would love than to be a gay, living in a gay community, in a glorified tent for goodness knows how long.
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