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an inconvenient move

Moving a home (while not new to the field) is pretty revolutionary.  It preserves a home that would have been demolished and sent to the landfill.  Instead the home is sent to another lot, thus filling unused space while preventing new construction.

In the Spring of 07, Ethan partnered with architect Taylor Bowers to purchase three lots on Harper Street, right off Cherokee Boulevard—an area that has seen North Chatt’s westward expansion bring in new housing and commercial activity.  Taylor and Ethan developed plans for an in-fill neighborhood of six sustainable courtyard homes for these lots. Instead of simply bulldozing the houses that occupied the lots, two were recycled and reused on site.  And over the course of six months, the other house was salvaged.

Read the whole story here: A Meeting Place