Videos to Watch: Home Building for an Unstable Climate

by Emily Gertz · 2009-08-30 20:34:00 UTC
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The chances are very good that East Biloxi, Missippi will be hit again by a future hurricane at least as severe as 2005's Hurricane Katrina. Rising ocean temperatures due to global warming are already creating more intense coastal storms, many climatologists say, and that's likely to just get worse in coming decades.

But as I wrote yesterday, the seven families participating in Biloxi Model Home Project didn't want to leave the neighborhood. So architects working with the project created designs that factored in future floods and high winds.

Here are a few videos about the project and some of the designs, which are available for free use and adaptation at the Open Architecture Network:

1. Porchdog

Porchdog is one of the designs created for the East Biloxi rebuilding project.

2. Principal Voices: Design for good

Architecture for Humanity founder Cameron Sinclair (a fellow former Worldchanging blogger) explains his "design for good" philosophy, spotlighting the Biloxi Model Home Program.

3. Caesarstone Video

Describes the destruction left behind in Biloxi by Hurricane Katrina, and visits the site of one of the Biloxi Model Homes to describe how their designs meet the challenge of living as safely as possible in the storm zone, while also keeping the homes affordable.

Emily Gertz
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