Haitian Singer Luck Mervil To Build a 900 Shipping-Container Village In Haiti

inhabitat.com reports, Luck Mervil is leading the charge to help rebuild Haiti with houses made from repurposed shipping containers.

Through a new Montreal organization called Vilaj Vilaj, Luck Mervil plans to use 900 retrofitted shipping containers to construct a new village in Haiti, big enough to house 5,000 people but there's more... Keep on reading...

This new village will be erected on a parcel of previously uninhabited land near Leogane Haiti.

Remember? Leogane was the hardest hit by the earthquake.

As a matter of fact, Leogane was at the epicenter of the January 12 Haiti earthquake. 80 to 90% of all the buildings in Leogane were damaged by the earthquake.

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The village will consist of a series of 900 shipping containers grouped together in a grid and separated by open space, parks, and playing fields.

Both 40 and 20-foot containers will be used to construct durable, long-term and hurricane and earthquake resistant homes.

Each home will offer roughly 320 sq feet of living space with running water and bathrooms.

The village will also be self-sufficient, with space for companies to set up shop so that villagers can work and support themselves.

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The project will cost about $25 million, Luck Mervil decided to put his career on hold, the article says, and has been ardently working to raise the funds to make it a realty.

We certainly hope that this project bears fruit.

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