In New Orleans, Brad Pitt’s Foundation Completes Six Homes

House by Billes Architecture: Richard Kravet, a partner at the firm, says one client asked that the house be raised from five to eight feet. The additional height created an open-air basement level. To add some privacy to that space and to keep the house from looking as though it is wearing stilts, one exterior wall was extended to the ground. “But in the event of a flood,” Kravet explains, "this wall extension would break away so flood pressure would not compromise the house."

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