BUILDING / EAST BILOXI / A HOUSE FOR PATIENCE

Patience, 67, is a lifelong resident of Biloxi. A mother of 3 grown children (Arnold, Donna, and Robert), she had been living in her former home since 1967, but it was heavily damaged in the surge of Katrina. In her first effort to rebuild, she lost money to contractor mismanagement. In her second attempt, a group of volunteers gutted the house and isntalled a new sub-floor. Unfortunately, the house could not be salvaged, and eventually had to be demolished. But the third time was the charm, and Patience was finally able to work with the Coordination Center and GCCDS to get her new home.

The challenges in designing this house were to provide an outdoor extension of the living and kitchen spaces for entertaining, provide daylighting for every room, create a hurricane-resistant building, and make the home easy to build with volunteer labor. These goals were met, and Patience is finally back in her own home.

11-30-06 - The house is coming along.

11-13-06 - The front of Patience's house

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11-13-06 - Jack and Art gettin it done

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11-13-06 - The vent detail, pretty fancy!

11-04-06- The materials, oh the materials

10-06 - Patience's existing house has been demolished

9-06 - Then interior of the house before it was demolished.

Patience's existing house that was demolished.