The Big Idea
A team of architecture students get just one year to design and build a new home in Katrina-battered New Orleans. With little experience, can they realise their ideas in time?, Architecture students design and build a single-family house in a low-income neighborhood of New Orleans devastated by Hurricane Katrina. In the first episode, Professor Byron Mouton outlines the objectives, including innovation, affordability, a bold design and the use of environmentally friendly materials.