Rebuilding and restoring communities
The Foothill Catalog
The Catalog is envisioned as a collection of pre-approved home designs for displaced residents to affordably and expeditiously rebuild, while collectively retaining our community identity and local architectural character.
Our Process
The Foothill Catalog will consist of a wide range of home designs developed through the collaboration of many Architects, Engineers, Builders, public officials and community members.
Displaced residents looking to affordably rebuild a home will have the option to select a design, style, and price range that is appropriate for their neighborhood and their budget.
The repeatable nature of pre-designed, pre-approved homes can vastly increase the speed of construction, and lower the floor of affordability to enable a diverse group of property owners to remain in control of their land, and ultimately to remain in their hometown.
Our neighborhoods, once decimated by wildfire, can be efficiently rebuilt with the same eclectic architectural character so intrinsic to our collective identity.
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The Foothills: a community rooted in history and culture.
Altadena and the surrounding foothill neighborhoods are characterized by the ever present mountains and a diverse, soul-filled community seeped in the history of Southern California. Due to the Eaton Fire, much of the built environment that reflected this character has been reduced to ashes. It’s up to all of us to preserve and restore the essence of this community that is beloved by so many.
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The Catalog: a tangible architectural revitalization resource for homeowners
The residential structures that were lost within the Foothill community represented significant cultural value that cannot be easily quantified or replaced. Homeowners and residents of these communities shared strong emotional connections to these places, and many will have limited means or resources to rebuild on their own in a traditional way.
The primary mechanism for this revitalization effort is the development of a series of repeatable, pre-approved home designs that are representative of the historical identity of the Southern California locale.
Modeled off of the Sears Catalog Homes popularized in the early 1900s, different options of local character-defining style residences can be developed in a variety of sizes, orientations, and articulations. This catalog of home designs will allow displaced homeowners an efficient and predictable mechanism to rebuild their home, while simultaneously rebuilding the historic identity of their neighborhood.
The success of The Foothill Catalog depends on all of us.
The Foothill Catalog is a movement only made possible through the combined efforts of the collective.
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Let’s rebuild our community together.
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