Kanye West's first YEEZY Home project appears to be a prefab affordable housing scheme

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  By Alexander Walter
  
  Jun 4, '18 2:00 PM EST
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  Image via Jalil Peraza/@jalilperaza on Instagram.
  It's been merely a month since rapper/entrepreneur/design aficionado Kanye West announced on Twitter that he would launch an architecture venture with his design firm, to be called YEEZY Home, and now first renderings have appeared on Instagram that list West among the designers.
  
  "Low income housing scheme, made of prefabricated concrete in collaboration with Petra Kustrin, Jalil Peraza, Kanye West, Nejc Skufca," reads the caption of an image that shows a minimalist courtyard flanked by walls that mimic the brutalist, austere aesthetic of West's latest private estate as well as his YEEZY HQ in Calabasas, a posh Los Angeles suburb.
  
  
  
  Image via Jalil Peraza/@jalilperaza on Instagram.
  The image was shared by designer, and former Kanye West collaborator, Jalil Peraza who added another rendering this morning of an ultraminimalist kitchen with muted brass and concrete surfaces, crediting the same design team.
  
  
  
  Image Jalil Peraza via hypebeast.com.
  Hypebeast also published another rendering of what appears to be an interior space adjacent to the inner courtyard from the initial rendering.
  
  Details beyond the few renderings have been sparse, so stayed tuned.
  

 

[ronmch20]

Great design... Why is an inhabitant not suppose to say to himself, "damn I feel like I'm in an upscale prison"?

 

[futureshock]

Great design... Why is an inhabitant not suppose to say to himself, "damn I feel like I'm in an upscale prison"?

We went from Matrix clothes to Ex Machina homes?

 

[ZuluSam]

Low income housing development = tax credits for the developer.

 

[geechiedan]

Low income housing development = tax credits for the developer.

fany name for PROJECT housing

 

[blackbull1970]

If them shits are made with steel reinforced concrete.

Purchasing one of them for areas like Tornado Alley, The Gulf Coast or the Caribbean would make them perfect.

 

[ZuluSam]

fany name for PROJECT housing

True, but I am talking about the development end. If one has the money to develop apartments they may not choose to develop low income apartments. But, if they do develop low income apartments they get a tremendous tax credit benefit. This encourages the development. I always wondered why entertainers and athletes didn't take more advantage of the program. Get props for building 'nice' projects while virtually paying NO federal income tax.

When you hear of the big fancy luxury developers, best believe that those luxury projects are bolstered by a host of low income properties they don't advertise that they own.

 

[dbluesun]

i like the design,but i wonder how you gonna have low income people in theses units and expect the venture not to fail
these aren't designed for people with multiple kids and cheap furniture