March 2008
by Clayton DeKorne
The devastation and aftermath of Hurricane Katrina set Bill and Bryan Spatz in motion rethinking what type of foundation makes sense in flood-prone areas. The Noah's Ark Project is a steel-framed modular home built on a barge. The home looks like a typical 2,700-square-foot home with an asking price of about $525,000, belying the fact of its unique design. For residential builders, it's a study in what a coastal home can become in the hands of a commercial developer, and for the industry as a whole, it's a concept that pushes the boundaries of how to build to protect against hurricane
damage.
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Floating Out the Storm A concept home designed to resist flood and wind rises out of the wreckage of New Orleans Clayton DeKorne By now, images of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina have been forever etched into the history of the United States. For the people displaced by this vast storm, however, the memory of Katrina is anything but trite. In the weeks and months after Hurricane Katrina made landfall near Buras-Triumph, La., over a million people evacuated the ruined regions of the Gulf Coast, resettling in every state in the country wherever life could be reconstructed. During this
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