A House For Patience
Community Partners : East Biloxi Coordination Center
Building Partners: Beaverton Four Square/Compassion First, Project Teamwork, Whidbey Island Construction
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 East Biloxi 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.
