American firm Office of Jonathan Tate has completed a cluster of sculptural white homes on an urban New Orleans site that are meant to attract buyers on a limited budget.
The project, called Saint Thomas at Ninth, is part of the Starter Home initiative, which aims to create affordable housing within gentrifying urban neighbourhoods in the coastal Louisiana city.
The programme also encourages density and modest-sized housing as a way to foster more sustainable living.

The initiative was started by local studio Office of Jonathan Tate, or OJT, which teams up with developers to create the speculative homes. Other projects completed as part of the initiative include 3106 St Thomas and 4514 S Saratoga, both single-family dwellings.
"The programme uses targeted land acquisition to reduce embedded cost ? along with contemporary, compact designs ? to keep the price of the home below market norms," said architecture firm in a description.
"Saint Thomas at Ninth is an expansion of this programme that seeks to renegotiate existing site conditions, both physical and legal, in order to maximise residential density."
The new development ? which won a national AIA design award ?  is located on a corner site in Irish Channel, an industrial zone that is transitioning to a residential neighbourhood.
The project entailed the adaptive reuse of a warehouse and the construction of nine, detached condominium buildings. The housing complex contains 12 units, with a total in...