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...past catfish farms, abandoned barns and sleepy towns, pointing out houses and community structures along the way. Even the 100[degree] temperature and nearly 100% humidity don't seem to slow him down. It is only when he reaches the hamlet of Mason's Bend and the home of Alberta Bryant that this bear of a man with a bushy graying beard slips into low gear and momentarily seems to surrender to the heat. Plopping down on Bryant's couch, Mockbee rests his straw hat to the side and catches up with one of his studio's earliest clients...
...keeping with the studio's philosophy of building with local and inexpensive materials, the students scavenged for supplies, gathering bales of hay for the walls and sheets of acrylic for the roof. "When they started on the house, I told people that the cows would eat up my house," Alberta Bryant jokes, recalling her nervousness about having her home constructed from stuccoed-over livestock fodder. Yet six years later, the building is still sturdy. The translucent overhang filtering light onto the porch's yellow columns and the cavernous green Quonset-hut-shaped rooms jutting from the back make the house...
...Bryant House exemplifies the studio's approach to affordable housing. After Mockbee asked Alberta and her husband Shepard if he could build a home for them, he introduced the couple to some of the Auburn architecture students assigned to the project. The students quizzed the family about how many bedrooms it needed as well as how much time family members spent in the kitchen, and then started on the house...
...catfish farms, abandoned barns and sleepy towns, pointing out houses and community structures along the way. Even the 100-degree temperature and nearly 100 percent humidity don't seem to slow him down. It is only when he reaches the hamlet of Mason's Bend and the home of Alberta Bryant that this bear of a man with a bushy graying beard slips into low gear and momentarily seems to surrender to the heat. Plopping down on Bryant's couch, Mockbee rests his straw hat to the side and catches up with one of his studio's earliest clients...
...keeping with the studio's philosophy of building with local and inexpensive materials, the students scavenged for supplies, gathering bales of hay for the walls and sheets of acrylic for the roof. "When they started on the house, I told people that the cows would eat up my house," Alberta Bryant jokes, recalling her nervousness about having her home constructed from stuccoed-over livestock fodder. Yet six years later, the building is still sturdy. The translucent overhang filtering light onto the porch's yellow columns and the cavernous green Quonset-hut-shaped rooms jutting from the back make the house...