Comments on: Homeless Chateau https://reclaimedhome.com/2009/01/05/homeless-chateau/ Reuse. Rehabilitate. Restore. Architectural salvage and repurposed pieces for the home. Tue, 03 Sep 2013 22:48:54 +0000 hourly 1 By: Reclaimed Home: Green Low Impact Housing Renovation of New York, Brooklyn, New Jersey https://reclaimedhome.com/2009/01/05/homeless-chateau/#comment-49232 Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:10:56 +0000 http://reclaimedhome.com/2009/01/05/homeless-chateau/#comment-49232 […] also: Plywood Chateau addthis_url = […]

]]> By: RH https://reclaimedhome.com/2009/01/05/homeless-chateau/#comment-25467 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:22:15 +0000 http://reclaimedhome.com/2009/01/05/homeless-chateau/#comment-25467 Thanks, James! I can donate transportation. Now, who’s got the big bucks?

Naomi, artists can crash in the chateau, but can they also work there? If they have scale pieces and they’re extremely organized?

]]> By: Naomi Sachs https://reclaimedhome.com/2009/01/05/homeless-chateau/#comment-25466 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:55:01 +0000 http://reclaimedhome.com/2009/01/05/homeless-chateau/#comment-25466 On the other hand, there are plenty of homeless people who are perfectly sane, not alcoholics, etc. I liked the original idea of “Chateau for a Homeless Artist” because it was more specific to J’s “peeps,” who when they’re not bankrolled by parents, partners, benefactors or galleries (as if!) often struggle to make ends meet and need a safe place to crash while they make their art. A good friend of ours finally left this country for Argentina because he got so worn down by things here (and because living out of your van in Colorado can get awfully cold in the winter).

]]> By: James Westwater https://reclaimedhome.com/2009/01/05/homeless-chateau/#comment-25464 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:14:51 +0000 http://reclaimedhome.com/2009/01/05/homeless-chateau/#comment-25464 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 where 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 locates, 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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