Hurricane Katrina, which occurred in August 2005, caused enormous damage to the City of New Orleans. In December 2007, the Make It Right Foundation, founded by the actor Brad Pitt, approached a number of world renowned architects to design homes that would rebuild the Lower Nine Ward, an area most devastated by the flooding and whose inhabitance had no money to rebuild. This charitable project was aimed at creating low cost, mass producible, "safe houses". Homes were placed on piles and designed to withstand future storms and flooding. This building, Furniture House 6, integrated prefab Furniture Units with tradition vernacular of New Orleans' Shotgun House typology.
2005年8月に発生した大型ハリケーン「カトリーナ」がニューオリンズに甚大な被害をもたらした。2007年12月に俳優ブラッド・ピットらが財団を設立し、進めてたハリケーン被災者用エコ住宅建設プロジェクトの1つが「Make It Right」である。このプロジェクトは、低コストで大量生産可能な「安全な家」をつくることを目的とし、今後の嵐や洪水に耐えるように設計された。
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