Go BackPlanned Development of Sixty-five Low Cost Houses
1990 to 1994Proposal for a new community of 200 people in a thirty acre site in Podunk, New York, near Ithaca, a traditional small town where houses to middle and low income families could be provided at a price that ordinary people can afford. One of the essential features of the project was an innovative financing program, which avoids up-front financing and allows the families to avoid high mortgage costs, by introducing a growth sequence for the individual house. .
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Podunk, New York
20/01/1992
Unformatted version of text and annotations indicating layout.
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Podunk, New York: A Village for 200 People, with Beautiful Small Houses at a Price that Ordinary People Can Afford, a New American Dream, Created by a Grass-roots Housing Process
30/03/1992
65-page original draft, with pencil marks inside and note on front page “Marked up original 3/30/1992”.
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Podunk, New York: A Village for 200 People, with Beautiful Small Houses at a Price that Ordinary People Can Afford, a New American Dream, Created by a Grass-roots Housing Process
31/03/1992
Working draft for discussion, sent to Osmo Heila as overall plan and scheme.
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The Uniqueness of People's Individual Worlds, Always Respected and Manifested
In the last two centuries "modular" design has produced identical apartments, arranged in typical apartment blocks. The same is true for mass-produced furniture. Uniqueness, which expresses personal needs and whiches, and which springs from the need to adapt and connect ...
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A New Approach to Design and Construction Management
A new kind of design/construction/management process, especially for large projects, is required, which will allow the building to be conceived, designed and built so that it comes to life. Below are the ground rules of such a process, already tried ...