Course Description
The project for this studio is to design a demonstration project for a site near the French Quarter in New Orleans. The objectives of the project are the following:
- To design more intense housing, community, educational and commercial facilities in four to six story buildings.
- To explore the “space …
The project for this studio is to design a demonstration project for a site near the French Quarter in New Orleans. The objectives of the project are the following:
- To design more intense housing, community, educational and commercial facilities in four to six story buildings.
- To explore the “space between” buildings as a way of designing and shaping objects.
- To design at three scales - dwelling, cluster and overall.
- To design dwellings where the owners may be able to help build and gain a skill for employment.
- To provide/design facilities that can help the residents to gain education and skills.
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![Satellite imagery showing flooding in New Orleans.](/courses/4-144-architectural-design-level-ii-new-orleans-studio-spring-2006/77c05fe57fe093706e346ebdf4b5f477_4-144s06.jpg)
The extent of flooding in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina is shown in this satellite image. (Image courtesy of NASA.)