After Hurricane Katrina, San Francisco-based Architecture for Humanity joined with the Hope Coordination Center and the Gulf Coast Community Design Studio to address Gulf Coast rebuilding. In August 2006, their “Model Home Fair” brought local prospective homeowners together with an ensemble of architects. Chung Nguyen from the Houston firm of MC2 Architects prepared what might be described as a traditional design for the Tran House at 322 Division Street. It is elevated ten feet and covered with HardiePlank, and its low-pitched, longitudinal gable roofs shelter a narrow, deep block of rooms and an ample side porch with exposed wooden trusses. Marlon Blackwell from Fayetteville, Arkansas, designed the Tyler House (2009; pictured above) at 251 Holley Street. Anything but traditional, the elevated structure nicknamed PorchDog has a steel frame, a metal skin, and a steel-deck rear porch with a cantilevered roof. Its largely closed north and south walls and largely open east and west ones outfitted with sliding panels and overhead doors allow the interior to be secured during storms.