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  Project Title

  J-House

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  Winning Firm
  
  

  AEDS | Ammar Eloueini

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  Lead Designer
  
  

  Ammar Eloueini

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  Awarded
  
  PLATINUM AWARD, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, Residential, Single

• Project Link
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• Project Location
  New Orleans, United States
• Client
  Ammar Eloueini
• General Contractor
  Ammar Eloueini


• Architectural Firm
   
• Architect Firm / Studio Name
  AEDS | Ammar Eloueini
• Lead Architect(s)
  Ammar Eloueini
• About Firm
  A French American architect born in Beirut, Lebanon, Ammar Eloueini established AEDS in Paris, an architecture studio that has operated across locations in Europe and the US since 1999. The studio’s key projects include the J-House in New Orleans and the CoReFab Chairs that are part of MoMA in NYC and the Centre Pompidou in Paris permanent collections. Eloueini is a tenured Professor of Architecture at Tulane University in New Orleans.

The J-House is a residence in historic New Orleans. It is also a type of study of place, constraints and possibilities. It was inspired by the shot-gun house typology; a housing stock that typifies New Orleans. It is also part of a lineage of speculative houses designed since the early 20th Century. The design uses steel to create a bridge like structure that allows a minimal footprint and resist to180 mph hurricane winds. The outside is cladded with a rain-screen charred wood that helps minimize heat transmission and prevent from notorious termites’ damage.