Harnessing Water
Views along the path
Response to Lakeview neighborhood
Exhibition Path
Sectional Perspective
Site Plan
Conceptual Diagrams/Sketches
Rethinking Histories – DSGN5100 (with Drew Mazur) – Advanced Studio Elective · Fall Semester 2011 · Professor John Klingman, RA · 16 weeks
Given a historically rich site at the beginning of the Orleans Avenue outfall canal, histories of site were reimagined to create an appropriate beginning for the new Orleans Avenue outfall canal. The levee becomes habitable, creating single and multifamily housing, an exhibition path remembering the physical history of the site, and a restaurant as well as a path connecting Lakeview and City Park. The wetland becomes an area of repose and passage, a void contrasting with the newly programmed levee, and also serving as bioremediation of storm water run-off before its eventual passage to Lake Pontchartrain. The exhibition path becomes a floodwall, unleashing memory instead of holding back water, enabling New Orleans to regain its identity as a water city.
