DATE: October 30, 2007

CONTACT: Doug Hecker, (864) 656-3894
dhecker@clemson.edu
CONTACT: Martha Skinner, (864) 656-6424
marthas@clemson.edu

WRITER: Michael Greenfield, (864) 656-2061
news.services@pubaff.clemson.edu


Clemson’s Dry-In House project captures award from I.D. Magazine

CLEMSON – The Dry-In House project at Clemson University received an award in I.D. Magazine’s annual design review. Clemson's project received one of 150 awards selected from 2,000 international entries.

Dry-In House prototype The award is the fifth I.D. Magazine award received by Clemson architecture professors Doug Hecker and Martha Skinner.

The Dry-In House project was designed by Clemson’s architecture department to aid in the reconstruction of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. The project allows families affected by the disaster to use an interactive Web site to design a home online and then have it erected on their property.

“The construction of the first prototype will set a new standard for affordable housing in New Orleans,” Hecker.

The concept of the Dry-In House was designed by Hecker and Skinner with a mockup of the design built this spring by a team of seven fourth-year architecture students known as ddbNOLA, an architecture studio led by Hecker. The structure stands in the Lee Hall lawn on campus.

The ddbNOLA team has now shifted its focus to completing the first actual Dry-In House in New Orleans, the first home is scheduled to be under way this fall.

In addition to the I.D. Magazine award, the project has been featured at the Architectural institute of British Columbia in recent months.

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