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The site is located in an open lot adjacent to the New Orleans Museum of Art and its newly constructed sculpture gardens. The parti-diagram directly responds to its neighboring elements. in order to fit into the context of City Park landscape is used as a sculptural element, while creating the entrance into the main concert hall. Entering underneath the landscape, visitors will be taken to a unique concert experience. The proposal holds a main concert hall, as well as an intimate venue, exterior venue, and temporary housing for performers. Conceptually, the hall is designed as a “concert in a cave”. Rather than one large audience, seats are broken into intimate sections called vineyard seating. This allows for each seat to have distinctive sights and sounds. All the walls in the concert hall are triangulated, preventing sound from echoing around the room. The concrete walls are finished with a technique called “picado concrete”. This consists of adding large aggregate to concrete, then breaking it off after assembly to achieve desirable acoustics.

CITY PARK CENTER FOR MUSIC

Concert Hall & Institution

2019 1st Year Graduate Tulane University

Prof. Errol Barron

City Park, New Orleans, LA

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New Orleans is a city of tremendous diversity, culture, and resiliency; qualities that make the city among the most unique places in the world. These same qualities are visually expressed in the vast amount of public art throughout the city’s neighborhoods. Street art or graffiti is often about non-conformity; whether to society or artistic norms, and less about perfection and acceptance. The city builds its identity and markets on the work of its resident artists and culture bearers, while many of them live in a precarious financial situation. Central City New Orleans is home to numerous examples of the city’s outstanding street art. This proposal draws inspiration from existing murals on site and surrounding areas in Central City to create affordable housing for artists at the core of New Orleans culture. The project is defined by a singular canvas wall that connects two separate building masses through cutting, carving, and sculpting. The canvas begins on the OC Haley façade, methodically carving out a tunnel off the sidewalk funneling pedestrians into the center of the project. At the heart of the design is a central courtyard immersed in the canvas creating an exterior gallery space for the cities most under promoted and overlooked artists.

CANVAS HOUSING

Artist Community Housing

2018 1st Year Graduate Tulane University

Prof. Emilie Taylor-Welty

New Orleans, LA

This proposal for post-disaster housing considers stadia as site for a modular housing community. These sites have amenities such as plumbing, electricity, concessions, and parking that can be easily adapted to support a community. In phase one of the proposal the individual units will be deployed in open lots throughout the city of New Orleans for immediate recovery. Phase Two finds a permanent home for these units placing them in Tad Gormley Stadium in City Park. Built by the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression Tad Gormley stadium has housed football, track and field, baseball, and concerts but today is seldom occupied. Two different unit layouts were designed to create a more diverse aggregation. These units then take advantage of the sloped seating and are stacked and aggregated on top of each other. This elevates the units above the ground avoiding flood risk, and allows for the field area to be used as community space and sustainable water management.

STAY-DIUM

Hurricane Housing Adaptive Reuse

2020 2nd Year Graduate Tulane University

Prof. Judith Kinnard

City Park, New Orleans, LA

The city of Pittsburgh is forged by its three rivers, the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio. This forms a unique condition for Pittsburgh that naturally divides the city into multiple districts and neighborhoods. Due to the long walking distances between districts citizens of Pittsburgh are forced to drive rather than walk, causing an immense amount of traffic, and carbon emissions. This proposal in the Cultural Arts District offers a solution to this problem by including an Uber Ride Sharing Autonomous Transportation Center. Three separate forms through out the project converge into one holistic building. These three fluid forms symbolize Pittsburgh’s signature three rivers. Exterior and interior theaters are both projected on the facade to spark interest to drawing pedestrians through the building’s promenade. The structural system utilizes a hat truss which is supported by hollow concrete cores. The hat truss allows the columns to be hung in tension, freeing the elevated courtyard from columns. The facade was developed to minimize direct solar heat gain and to maximize indirect light. This was accomplished by creating operable panels that gradually unfold when hit with direct sunlight.

THREE RIVERS INNOVATION CENTER

*With Blake Minster

Office Building (Integrated Studio)

2018 4th Year Undergraduate Kent State

Prof. Scott Lukens

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Designed as a prototype, this unit is shown as a triplex in the Lykins Neighborhood. The plan is organized in a two-bar scheme that divides public and private spaces. In 1975 British geographer Jay Appleton claims that humans instinctively choose areas where they can see without being seen in “Experience of Landscape”. His findings have since been empirically proven. He breaks down the ideal human habitat into two characteristics, Prospect and Refuge. Prospect meaning a place with unimpeded opportunity to see, and refuge as a place for concealment. This design is directly inspired by Appleton’s prospect & refuge. Public spaces are open to allow for a connection to landscape and sky, while private spaces are solid to create a sense of security.