Alum purchases The ILZRO House
Natasha Harrison 91 GL and her husband Ben Randall have purchased The ILZRO House.
The ILZRO House is a revolutionary house and eight acres located in Foster, RI that utilizes zinc panels for its construction, and is designed for people of all abilities to reside.
The ILZRO House project was a partnership between RISD and The International Lead and Zinc Research Organization (ILZRO) in 1972 with Marc Harrison as the leader of the team of faculty and students that completed it. The experimental steel house explored building with new materials, accessibility for the disabled and non-disabled as well as energy conservation. At the time it was built, it was the most inclusive and accessible house created.
The ILZRO House is 30 minutes from Providence, RI. Harrison and his family lived there until 1978 when Lorraine Howes, the head of the Apparel Design department at RISD, resided there. Mrs. Howes kept the house as it was intended, with the original furnishings, fixtures and design intact. In 2021 Harrison’s daughter, Natasha Harrison, purchased it with her husband Ben Randall.
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