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“I am excited to bring the Prince Concepts’ development philosophy and placemaking to my home state of Texas,” said Philip Kaa, President of Prince Concepts. “PS1200 marks our third development project that employs the quonset hut as a tool to offer elevated quality space, and it synthesizes the most successful elements of all our previous Detroit-based projects. PS1200 thoughtfully combines public green space, inspired dwellings, commerce and office space providing a place where the Fort Worth community can live, work, gather and intersect to experience urbanism, architecture and landscape.
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PS1200 is a continuation of Prince Concepts’ use of cost-effective Quonset huts which invest savings into high quality public and private spaces, aiming to provide a similar kind of cultural, culinary and community ignition in Fort Worth. PS1200 is slated for completion in October 2021.
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Prince Concepts slices up a prefab Quonset hut to create a series of light-filled dwellings.
In Detroit’s Core City neighborhood, a new prefab Quonset hut hosts six apartments and two live/work spaces surrounded by a recently planted urban forest. Named Caterpillar after its long and slender shape, the gleaming 9,000-square-foot structure is the latest venture by Prince Concepts, a local real estate developer that has partnered with the city to develop roughly one hundred vacant properties in the district.
In addition to Caterpillar, Prince Concepts has completed multiple large projects in Core City over the past few years, including True North in 2017, 5k in 2020, and Core City Park in 2019.
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In the Detroit neighbourhood of Core City, a low-cost, eight-unit housing project has been completed using a prefabricated Quonset hut. Designed by architect Ishtiaq Rafiuddin for Prince Concepts, the 836 sq m project is accompanied by a new 150-tree public woodland – made possible by reallocating funds which would have otherwise been spent on more expensive construction methods.
Quonset huts are lightweight prefabricated structures of corrugated galvanised steel with a semi-cylindrical cross-section. The design was originally developed in 1941 for the US Navy, based on the British Nissen hut from 1916. Despite the structure’s military heritage, many are used around the US as businesses, homes, or for storage.
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