Home Delivery Walkthrough: Digitally Fabricated Housing for New Orleans

Posted by admin on April 11th, 2010 and filed under new homes | 23 Comments »

Learn more at: http://moma.org/homedelivery

Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling is both a survey of the past, present and future of the prefabricated home and a building project on the Museum’s vacant west lot. Not since the mid-century House in the Garden series has MoMA built occupiable model buildings to demonstrate contemporary issues to the public. The fives homes erected on the vacant west lot are designed by Kieran Timberlake Associates (Philadelphia); Jeremy Edmiston and Douglas Gauthier (New York); Horden Cherry Lee Architects / Haack + Höpfner Architects (London/Munich); Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Planning / Associate Professor Lawrence Sass (Cambridge); and Oskar Leo Kaufmann (Dornbirn, Austria).

The exhibition, and its accompanying Web site (www.moma.org/homedelivery), display the process of architectural design and production in equal measure with the actual end result.

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23 Responses

  1. hulaheather Says:

    Im thankful that i …
    Im thankful that i do have a home to live in but i want one of these just for fun!!! lol

  2. BIRKENWOOD Says:

    Nice concept. …
    Nice concept. Allows for quick rebuilding after major disasters.

  3. HymerSchmidt Says:

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  4. Spacemarine007 Says:

    Can you buys these? …
    Can you buys these? is so, where would you find a seller? Fairly interesting product, it would be very useful for camping establishments.

    ~Cm

  5. ryanarchy422 Says:

    Take it back, pigs …
    Take it back, pigs and dogs are intelligent animals.

  6. Eralen00 Says:

    what about if you …
    what about if you had no house. if you had no roof over your head at all. would you still not live in one of these?

  7. nazdun Says:

    Great idea, but how …
    Great idea, but how weather proof is this concept?

  8. bellehaup Says:

    All that bale out …
    All that bale out money inept corporate heads and the solution for the New Orleans disaster is a ply wood box how many years after the fact? Okay, I give up…

  9. lieutnemo Says:

    Well, I see we now …
    Well, I see we now have the obligatory racist pig-dog response.

  10. haydavisito Says:

    I want one
    I want one

  11. punkrocksknot Says:

    chinese/japanese …
    chinese/japanese architecture traditionally was made of interlocking parts. In the states we never really picked that up. When the industrial revolution came around, we were thinking mass produced houses and mass produced goods. No one ever thought of having a building like this though (or it never caught on)

  12. tomspen100 Says:

    the forbidden city …
    the forbidden city in beijing is made out of interlocking parts

  13. corexs247 Says:

    I’d like to see one …
    I’d like to see one of these after a year of being lived in and exposed to the elements. The video did not impress me and if I was to make a decision based just on that, I would never live in one of these.

  14. bbb9freak Says:

    Great Idea put a …
    Great Idea put a cardboard house in hurricane central…

  15. ScottfromTexas Says:

    You cite the people …
    You cite the people being “colorful” but if they were less concerned with adorning themselves and getting drunk they would have things rebuilt already. I’ve never found degeneracy attractive, but I guess those are the sorts that think New Orleans is something special.

  16. d3ejmz Says:

    if the glue used in …
    if the glue used in making the fiberboard/wood-board is waterproof, the whole thing will be. Besides, I think this is meant to be clad in clapboard or at least vinyl siding. I mean, look at the roof… of course there will be something covering that… otherwise it would just leak! I love the concept.

  17. h2opower Says:

    Now that’s what I …
    Now that’s what I call forward thinking. That is the way to go for it is far more cost effective and stronger than the other method of building.

  18. calderalapse Says:

    when you make it …
    when you make it waterproof and hurricane proof you’ll be a genius for sure. :)

  19. crummett Says:

    I’ll take two!
    I’ll take two!

  20. casamurphy Says:

    Is it waterproof? …
    Is it waterproof? Sealing out moisture from the end cuts of laminates AND between the thousands of seams in this design looks like and impossible task to me.

  21. masakari0 Says:

    Thankyou, William …
    Thankyou, William Gibson, for bringing yet another fascinating video to my attention.

  22. farouki22 Says:

    Still struggling ” …
    Still struggling “shamefully”, I think you mean? The narrator said “shamelessly”.

  23. bunnybooties Says:

    I think the design …
    I think the design of this prefabricated home is brilliant and ingenius. You could feel the love,respect,and admiration for New Orleans, and the people that live there, that went into the creation of this home.:D

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