The drive to Léogâne at the beginning of the video is interesting in and of istelf, but watching the collaboration of the homeowners expressing their many ideas for living situations, well, kind of made me want to play too. They are first choosing the layout on the lots, and then configuring the lots around a common structure containing showers and toilets and water for the community. If you were on last year's build, it's interesting to get the aerial view - it looks very familiar!
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20 May 2012
A Haitian "Charette"
Last July, Architecture for Humanity was invited to meet with the first 150 homeowners in the Santo project in Léogâne in a design session, or "charette." While I will have helped build four houses by the time this Carter Work Project is done, the Santo project is not just about building homes. Haiti Habitat is building a community, and is using community input to do so, so that the project remains relevant to its inhabitants after Habitat is gone.
The drive to Léogâne at the beginning of the video is interesting in and of istelf, but watching the collaboration of the homeowners expressing their many ideas for living situations, well, kind of made me want to play too. They are first choosing the layout on the lots, and then configuring the lots around a common structure containing showers and toilets and water for the community. If you were on last year's build, it's interesting to get the aerial view - it looks very familiar!
The drive to Léogâne at the beginning of the video is interesting in and of istelf, but watching the collaboration of the homeowners expressing their many ideas for living situations, well, kind of made me want to play too. They are first choosing the layout on the lots, and then configuring the lots around a common structure containing showers and toilets and water for the community. If you were on last year's build, it's interesting to get the aerial view - it looks very familiar!
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