Cement panels and asphalt shingles cover the exterior of this family dwelling by US architecture firm Office of Jonathan Tate, which was designed to appeal to first-time home buyers.
The project ? Starter Home No 3, 4514 S Saratoga ? is located in the Freret neighbourhood of New Orleans. The area features leafy streets and modest, historic dwellings.

Encompassing 1,490 square feet (138 square metres), the Saratoga Street home is the latest project completed as part of an initiative aimed at increasing opportunities for people to own their first house. Launched by local firm Office of Jonathan Tate, or OJT, the Starter Home programme is focused on building speculative, entry-level dwellings on vacant and "overlooked" urban plots.
Rather than using a cookie-cutter approach, the programme aspires to tailor each home's design to its specific site conditions and the programmatic needs of prospective buyers. The inaugural project ? Starter Home No 1, 3106 St Thomas ? is a tall, skinny home that was completed in 2016 in the Channel neighbourhood and sold for roughly $315,000 (£243,200).
The Saratoga Street dwelling rises three storeys on a slender lot measuring 1,050 square feet (98 square metres).

"In keeping with the generalised precepts of speculative development, 4514 S Saratoga is a standard three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath home," the architect said in a project statement. "The limited site area ? about a third the size of a traditional par...