Starter Home* is an opportunistic urban housing program created to develop affordable, entry-level homes for the speculative market that prioritizes: contemporary design that is site based and not prototypical; programmatic diversity to address a range of buyers, from first-timers to downsizers; densification through infill of overlooked odd or irregular vacant land; right-sizing as a means of addressing both environmental concerns and to insure affordability; in increasingly gentrifying historic core neighborhoods, a product that enables household economic diversity in rapidly gentrifying historic urban cores; and to do this without subsidization.

© William Crocker

Architects: OJT
Location: 3106 Thomas St, New Orleans, LA 70131, USA

Architect In Charge: Jonathan Tate

Area: 975.0 ft2

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: William Crocker

Research And Design Team: Robert Baddour, Travis Bost, Rebecca X. Fitzgerald, Sabeen Hasan, Lauren Hickman, Kristian Mizes, Charles Rutledge, Jonathan Tate

Development Partner: Charles Rutledge

Structural Engineer: John C. Bose Consulting Engineers

Volume 1 : Starter Home*

Volume 2: House No. 1, 3106 St. Thomas

© William Crocker

Starter Home* is an opportunistic urban housing program created to dev...