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Shower power: Disaster-resilient prototype home completed in New Orleans
Sunshower SSIP House, an eye-catching, dual-roofed prefab abode that's designed to withstand the gnarliest of weather events, is completed in the Lakewood section ofNew Orleans.
Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 2:49 PM
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Green Architecture, Green Building, Weather & Climate, Natural Disasters, Prefab
Image: Oceansafe Steel SSIPs/Flickr
With the terrifying, tractor-trailer tossing tornados that recently hit the Dallas-Fort Worth area still fresh in everyone’s minds, I thought I’d take a gander at theSunshower SSIP House, a natural disaster-resilient prototype home recently completed and opened for tours in New Orleans, a city that’s no stranger to weather-related calamities. I first started hearing about the Sunshower SSIP House back in 2010 when the design, conceived by Tulane School of Architecture professors Tiffany Lin and Judith Kinnard, took first place in the New Orleans Sustainable Design Competition sponsored by New York-based SSIP (steel structural insulated panel) supplier Oceansafe in collaboration with the RenGen Group. Beating out seven other NOLA-based entrants, Lin and Kinnard’s Sunshower SSIP House was designed to withstand whatever nastiness Mother Nature just happens to throw at it: hurricane-force winds, 8.0-magnitude earthquakes, floods, wildfires, tornados, you name it. The home is also termite-proof and mold- and mildew-resistant. And as detailed by competition guidelines, the prefabricated Sunshower SSIP House is composed of $100,000 worth of building materials (powerful Oceansafe SSIPs are used for the exterior walls and roof) that can easily fit into a shipping container and be deployed to disaster-stricken areas for quick assemblage, making it not only a safe place to ride out a storm in but a suitable place to live during the aftermath of a natural disaster.
Late last month, Lin and Kinnard’s vision was at long
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Shower power: Disaster-resilient prototype home completed in New Orleans
Sunshower SSIP House, an eye-catching, dual-roofed prefab abode that's designed to withstand the gnarliest of weather events, is completed in the Lakewood section ofNew Orleans.
Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 2:49 PM
3
Related Topics:
Green Architecture, Green Building, Weather & Climate, Natural Disasters, Prefab
Image: Oceansafe Steel SSIPs/Flickr
With the terrifying, tractor-trailer tossing tornados that recently hit the Dallas-Fort Worth area still fresh in everyone’s minds, I thought I’d take a gander at theSunshower SSIP House, a natural disaster-resilient prototype home recently completed and opened for tours in New Orleans, a city that’s no stranger to weather-related calamities. I first started hearing about the Sunshower SSIP House back in 2010 when the design, conceived by Tulane School of Architecture professors Tiffany Lin and Judith Kinnard, took first place in the New Orleans Sustainable Design Competition sponsored by New York-based SSIP (steel structural insulated panel) supplier Oceansafe in collaboration with the RenGen Group. Beating out seven other NOLA-based entrants, Lin and Kinnard’s Sunshower SSIP House was designed to withstand whatever nastiness Mother Nature just happens to throw at it: hurricane-force winds, 8.0-magnitude earthquakes, floods, wildfires, tornados, you name it. The home is also termite-proof and mold- and mildew-resistant. And as detailed by competition guidelines, the prefabricated Sunshower SSIP House is composed of $100,000 worth of building materials (powerful Oceansafe SSIPs are used for the exterior walls and roof) that can easily fit into a shipping container and be deployed to disaster-stricken areas for quick assemblage, making it not only a safe place to ride out a storm in but a suitable place to live during the aftermath of a natural disaster.
Late last month, Lin and Kinnard’s vision was at long