Compact dwelling for the homeless

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  James Westwater

  11 years ago

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  I will give the Homeless Chateau prototype to a benefactor who can provide a safe, warm, dry space in which to park the Chateau and ensure that a homeless individual will benefit from it.
  
  I am also considering a sponsorship program in which benefactors would pay $500 per Homeless Chateau, to cover materials and fabrication costs. Others would donate transportation of the Chateaux and donate spaces in which homeless people could live in the shelters.
  
  Plywood Chateaux can also be easily "cloned" at remote locations, i.e. I don't have to make them, and they don't have to be transported from Beacon, NY. The materials are basic, standardized and readily available almost anywhere.
  
  I would encourage other people around the country to build Homeless Chateaux and urge their local municipalities and landlords with appropriate vacant spaces to donate those spaces for homeless individuals to live in the Chateaux.

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  frank

  11 years ago

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  This is an interesting piece of art but I'm always worried when I see those homeless shelter design projects. If designers continues on this direction they will manage to create another "de-humanized" category of people. Art provocation to focus on homeless peoples problem;YES, a new design solution to solve problems; NO.

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  brian

  11 years ago

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  This is the coolest housing i have seen in a while...i luv it!

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