GROW. PREPARE. COMMUNITY. by Ashley Lawrence

GROW. PREPARE. COMMUNITY.

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precedent analysis

programming

schematic design

final documentation

MISSION.

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Personal Design Statement From the beginning of oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s existence architecture and design will unknowingly impact the way they live their lives. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in this realm of the subconscious that architecture must work. As Architects, it is our duty to enrich community and raise awareness to better design. Design that does not make a statement or save the world, but design that makes a difference and provides better environments and opportunity to the community. I do not design for other architects or to create iconic architecture but rather a beautifully enriching experience of place. Place that is significant to its community and can act as an agent of change and growth. I believe that architects must use their understanding of the world to create meaningful architecture that speaks to the culture of a place as well as the individual while also using the technology and building techniques of that time. New technology and novel material innovations do not make good architecture but are part of a responsible architecture that cares about the present and future needs of its inhabitants as well as the world at large. Although it has been many year since Hurricane Katrina, the effects of the storm still have an impact on the communities of New Orleans. One of devastating effect left behind by Katrina is the limited access to fresh food, education and the ability to grow as a community. The storm took a tole on the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget making it diffecult to rebuild what was left behind. The NOFI-lab (New Orleans Food Innovation Lab will give opportunity and awareness to the social issues happening throughout communities of New Orleans. The goal of this project is to create a positive environment where member of the community can be educated on personal food growth, independent food preparation, and reminded how if a community bands together they are able to transform their environments together.

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STUDIO FOCUS “This studio asks students to consider the role that buildings can play in cities—with a focus on how buildings motivate ‘social’ or ‘public interest.’ Questions and discussions in the studio will examine how a designer chooses to influence or serve a wider community through the development of an architectural project. The architect’s role can serve to initiate, enable or be a catalyst for social change. The aim of this studio is to examine the role of programming, contextualizing for a particular place, selecting materials and systems and ultimately detailing envelopes and elements to take a position on what social and political relationships are appropriate or can be considered successful (by who’s standards?). There’s a movement where people are claiming streets in a different manner, experimenting on how this can be done with trial insertions and prototypes. New York Times Square has dedicated space for lounging in chairs, eating and photographing spectacles; San Francisco, parking spaces are temporary and long-lease-term parks for all sorts of activities; Austin has dedicated parking spaces and empty lots for food trucks and eating areas. Experiments are being sponsored by artists, advocacy groups, entrepreneurial business people, progressive city governments and the use of social media in connecting diverse perspectives towards a shared aim. Streets are being closed or inserted with events--for experimental programming that redefine how we use our city streets. These interventions help all to imagine and create space for public dialogue. The best projects are persuasive and help to draw together a variety of diverse interests through something made in a particular place. Through these we can imagine what is possible, reframing our perceptions of what good city life is and re-thinking what the elements of the street and buildings should include. Architects could choose to build in a way that nurtures our cities. Nothing is fixed and everything is open for debate as to whether it is successful and enduring. New civic life is possible through small experiments—shifting the focus to make streets about people. People-centered design. Public-interest design.” 10

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“This semester will focus upon the design of the New Orleans Culinary Incubator Lab (NOCI-lab). It is imagined as a foundation-supported organization associated with the New Orleans Mid-City community, drawing upon neighborhood participants and instittional partners. The owner of the site that is selected for this studio owns Liberty’s Kitchen and is interested in developing a second version of that program on this site. The Liberty’s Kitchen is a “social enterprise dedicated to transforming the lives of New Orleans’ youth by providing a path to selfsufficiency through food service-based training, leadership and employment programs.” The “Our Healthy School Lunch Program” is a “contracted meal program serving nutritious meals to the school children at the New Orleans College Prep Charter School.” An extended mission of the culinary incubator is to cultivate entrepreneurs while they formalize and grow food businesses, providing space at low cost in a commercial kitchen, specific technical assistance to industry and access to opportunities to sell their food products. Its vision is that participants will become economically self-sufficient and contribute to the economy by doing what they love to do.

These programs will build upon local urban agricultural initiatives and sustainable programs providing a holistic approach to achieve real change in the community’s access to healthy food. This culinary lab will strive to meet basic food needs and, at the same time, foster opportunities for community members to build mutual support networks, connect to resources and find their voices on the underlying causes of hunger and poverty. Led by local teams of emerging talents in the areas of urban agriculture, urbanism, art, community events, technology, education and sustainability, the NOCI-lab addresses issues of contemporary urban life through programs and public discourse. Its goal is the exploration of new ideas, experimentation and ultimately the creation of forward-thinking solutions for food production and city life. By providing public gardens and gathering spaces on the site, this center cultivates progressive change by amplifying voices, advancing human dignity, engendering respect among individuals, breaking down barriers to understanding and illuminating social justices. Within the existing building on this site, this program builds upon the Detroit’s Ponyride program and sees part of its mission as providing highquality, cheap-rent space for emerging, socially-conscious entrepreneurs to work and share knowledge, resources and networks.”

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Project Mission The New Orleans Food Innovation site will linhabit the intersection of four neighborhoods and will draw upon already exsisting urban agriculture programs established through community groups. New methods for how one may eat and relate to one another will be the source of communication between community members. The Food Innovation site will be a hub for community education and innovation, encouraging more responsiblility for real food and better individual and collective community health. NOFI-Lab will become a place where community residents can develop new skills, new attitudes, new ideas and new opportunities while associating themselves within an adaptive public space with a prominate mission to engage the community. The goal of this program will be to strengthen the local community fabric through education and hands-on association. Community members from all spectrums will occupy these spaces. Local farmers, from professional to beginner, will cross paths with students and youth, business professionals, designers, chefs and community members. Within Food Innovation each individual will bring a distinctive and neccessary characteristic to the opperation of the space. Each acting as mentors, visionary, and motivators for one another. Students and youth will have the opportunity to learn from professional farmers while the farmers teach, not only skills and knowledge to the youth as they assists in the manitence of crops, but also life lessons that will possitively impact their lives. Local chefs will have the opportunity to buy and grow their own food locally, gain local farmers to grow for them, and educate students and youth aspiring to become a food entrepreneurs. Food Innovation will take advantage of these growing spaces by providing a fresh food distribution center. They will provide high-quality, safe and affordable local fresh foods from on-site gardens and regional farmers to the on-site market, local schools, and underserved communities.

GROW.

PREPARE.

COMMUNITY.

MARKET

RECYCLE FOOD BANK

URBAN FARM

DISTRIBUTION

WATER CONSERVATION

RENEWABLE ENERGY

COMMERCIAL KITCHEN SEED BANK

EDUCATION

FOOD TRUCKS SOLAR PANELS COMMUNITY GARDEN

FRESH FOOD

BUSINESS INCUBATOR

FLOODPLAIN

CONTEXT.

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URBAN CONTEXT New Orleans is situated between two major bodies of water-the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain. Orgins as a Frech Colony give New Orleans its physical character, more similar to to European cities that settled, and until Americans began to populate the area, all races lived together within the same blocks. The class structure was understood, but living together was necessary due to the limited space between bodies of water. It is this proximity to the water that made New Orleans great, as the best way to export goods from the Midwest was South on the MIssissippi. This brought an extreme variety of goods and people through the area, all blending into the Creole culture. Food and music came with the people from all around the world, and the tradition to street performing permeated all activities, it manifested itself as a continuing communal celebration. People displaced by the hurricane feel mistreated, misled, and neglected; giving them mistrust of their hometown. Others feel a need to return to the life of their hometown, but feel New Orleans is not fit for them to live in. People turned to cultural staples of music and food to begin healing, but violence and crime increased dramatically and reconstruction is still extremely delayed. The history of a great city was nearly wiped out completely and the communities continue to be underserved. The New Orleans Culinary Incubator has the opportunity to provide an anchor for the community and inspire the positive efforts of redevelopment.

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Urban Growth and Water Canal Development New Orleans exsistance stems from its location on the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain allowing the city to have access to the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. When New Oeleans was founded in the early 18th century, it occupied the high, dry land along the river’s natural levees. The cypress swamps between the river and the lake lay just above sea level, but they were too wet to occupy permanently, and until the early twentieth century, the city’s development was confined to the stable high ground along the Mississippi.

1798 The first people settled off of the Mississippi River in the French Quarter. The first canal was created from the river to Lake Ponchetrain, and a small settlement was formed at the half way point. 1817 The settlement at the French Quarter right off of the river began to expand along each side of the Mississippi. The area between the first two settlements begins to fill in, as the canal is a major form of transportation.

During the first half of the twentieth centrury, mechanical pumping technology enabled the drainging and subdivision of the city’s “back-of-town” swamp. The reclamation of these soggy areas had an unexpected consuquence:it made ground levels fail. Urban development began to follow the new reclaimed landscape. This development has made the city more vunerable to flooding.

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The landscape becames transformed into a bowl below the sea level. This caused a higher water table making the rainwater unable to infilltrate the soil. Because there is no where for the water to go the groundwater is constantly expressed at the surface and must be pumped out to Lake Pontchartrain along with rainwater.

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The original settlement continues expanding, while plantations are formed in long slots perpandicular to the river. The plantations have clear divisions on the East and West sides, but the North side doesn’t have a clear property line. What is now the middle of New Orleans was then only swampland that was not valuable property for the early settlers. All but one of the plantations are occupied along the Mississippi River. This empty plantation will eventually become what is now Tulane University in New Orleans. Each of the plantation spaces have created their own street systems and grids. This is why current street conditions at the meeting of the plantation lots are often awkward and confusing intersections for traffic flow. Two more canals are beginning to be built from the lake into the city. 1923 The central land in the city begins to be drained and becomes inhabbitable. This land is still much less valuable than the land by the river and naturally the less wealthy begin to settle further toward the lake. This socioeconomic phenomenon has not been changed since early settlement. The land with a lower elevation in the center and north city are typically lower income residents.

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Floodwater Conditions During August of 2005, Hurricane Katrinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s effects on the city was directly effected by the typography of the city. The leeves created to keep areas of the city that were lower then sea level dry failed causing floodwater of over 10 feet throughout the city. This is illustrated in the map to the right. Our site was directly impacted by the flood and I will make it my goal to develop my site to the possibility of future flooding.

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people per square mile (in thousands)

Population Distribution After the Storm After the storm people and businesses have failed to neighborhoods. The higher 3 return6 back to 9 their 12 ground, “front-of-town” neighborhoods did not have as much damage as the back-of-town did, this allowed for communities to begin to rebuild their neighborhoods at a faster pace. Many neighborhoods in NOLA are still struggling with these efforts and it’s the lack of development that is hendering their success.

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less than US average (<14.3%)

between US and New Orleans average (14.3%-25.7%)

greater than concentrated poverty (>40%)

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between New Orleans average and concentrated poverty (25.7%-40%)

The patterns of population distributed throughout greater than concentrated poverty (>40%) NOLA demonstrates that lower income residents typicallydata have settled in the areas that were historinot available cally known to be swamps and flood plains. These areas were also the first to flood during Huricane Katrina. Suffering the most damage and had the most impact on these communities.

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Proposed Site The sites location is situated between four districts. Mid-City, Bayou St. John, Tulane-Gravier, and Treme are all mixed-income neighborhoods with very little new development. This makes our site extremely important to a large population. It will become a place of gathering and comminity at the crossroads of many peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s travels.

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Population Density in 2010 Comparing the density of sourounding districts to the avail-

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In NOLA, one of the largest deficiencies is the ability to access fresh food locally. The majority of these four districts barely reach 27

School Access to Fresh Foods RSD School

ten minutes RSD school NOPS school NOFI-Lab site

The Recovery School District is a special school district administered by the Louisiana Departmetn of Education to transform underperforming schools. NOPS New Orleans Public School The location of the site gives it direct adjacencies to many schools in need of transformation. The design development for the site

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Climate New Orleans is nested in a humid semi-tropical climate, surrounded by large bodies of water in all directions. These being Lake Ponchartrain, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Mississippi River. The region acumulates a considerable amount of rainfall and the city pumps struggle to keep dry throughout the year making it extremely susceptible to water-related problems. The mild Winter and Fall, and hot Spring and Summer allow for the culture to lend itself to the outdoors. This weather will promote the design of passively ventilated spaces and shaded outdoor space. The vernacular architecture of the region reveals these needs by tradition.

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PRECEDENTS.

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Lafitte Corridor The Friends of Lafitte Corridor (FOLC) formed in early 2006 by those who were concerned about post-Katrina planning, neighborhood revitalization, and open space development and alarmed about short-term political decisions being made without benefit of long-term planning vision. The vision to develope the Lafitte corridor as a greenway that encourages active living, facilitates economic development, and links adjacent neighborhoods, cultural features, historic sites, retail areas and public spaces. Project Goals: Increase transportation options by providing a safe, non-motorized pather of travel. Enhance recreational opportunities and add useful community open spaces to the Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s green space inventory. Generate economic recovery among residents of adjacent neighborhoods. Demonstrate best practices in environmental sustainability. Educate residents and visitors about the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cultural and economic history and its relationship to the larger environment.

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Parallel Institutional Mission: Hollygrove Growers Market and Farm Located in the heart of New Orleans, the Carrollton-Hollygrove Neighborhood is in desperate need of extensive redevelopment in the post-Katrina era. A part of the city long neglected in terms of a structured community organization around residents, the potential incentives for the area as part of the Carrollton@I-10 Redevelopment Plan are manifold. One urgent issue is the development of infrastructure and resources that support a healthy food system and benefit the community through the availability of fresh foods, beautiful neighborhoods and the promotion of a vibrant local economy.

Location

Growers Pavillion

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Site Organization To implement some of these important incentives, the Carrollton-Hollygrove Community Development Corporation (CHCDC) and the New Orleans Food and Farm Network (NOFFN) have partnered with the Tulane City Center to create the Hollygrove Growers Market & Farm (HGM&F)

A major incentive for this proposal is to provide accessibility to fresh, affordable produce for the Hollygrove residents, with an emphasis on offering sustainable opportunities for urban agriculture in New Orleans. Sustainability is a term widely used to describe the benefits of longevity and renewability of ecological support systems into building and landscape design. In this case sustainability refers to the many significant economic, social and environmental benefits that will be associated with the HGM&F: natural gardening in association with an on-site certification program for micro-farmers in New Orleans, composting and recycling facilities accessible to the neighborhood, fresh produce purchased from local and regional growers and high-efficiency greenhouses.

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Parallel Institutional Mission: Growing Power

Community Food Systems = Community Centers Mission. “Inspiring communities to build sustainable food systems that are equitable and ecologically sound, creating a just world, one food-secure community at a time.” Who are They? Transform communities by supporting people from diverse backgrounds. Bring people together by development of Community Food Systems. Training, active demonstration, outreach, and technical assistance. Three Essential Areas. GROW. Project and growing methods demonstrates easy to replicate growing methods through on-site workshops and hands-on demonstrations. BLOOM. Education and technical assistance educates people through local national, and international outreach for farmers and communities. Also having multiple youth programs, active volunteer bases, and actively work on policy initiatives regarding agriculture. THRIVE. Food production occurs in the organization’s demonstration greenhouse, rural farm site in Merton, and urban farms in Milwaukee and Chicago. They distribute produce, grass-based meats, and value-added products. They sell to numerous restraurants and small grocery stores in Chicago, Madison, and Milwaukee. 44

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Parallel Institutional Mission: BMW Guggenheim Lab Part urban think tank, part community center and public gathering space, the BMW Guggenheim Lab is a mobile laboratory traveling to cities worldwide. Led by international, interdisciplinary teams of emerging talents in the areas of urbanism, architecture, art, design, science, technology, education, and sustainability, the Lab addresses issues of contemporary urban life through programs and public discourse. Its goal is the exploration of new ideas, experimentation, and ultimately the creation of forward-thinking visions for city life. The BMW Guggenheim Lab launched in New York, then ran in Berlin, and recently closed in Mumbai. The Guggenheim Lab is a mobile lab that fosters inspiration and facilitates a two-way dialogue about urban life. After its stay in each of the cities, the Lab continues its engagement with participants through local, ongoing projects and the online publication of urban glossaries.

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PROGRAM.

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Program

Grow

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Think Tank

Commercial Kitchen

Food Library

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4000 sf

500sf

Public face: part think tank, part community center, part educational facility. This will be a flexible space designed with public accessibility in mind, programs, events, and discussions will be held here to bring the community together and to better address efforts being make to revitalize the neighborhood.

Facilitates budding culinary interests with supportive training and educational programs.

Will provide storage of excess and donated fresh and canned food that will be given to those in need.

Additional supportive spaces will include: fridge, freezer, dryfood storage, prep kitchen areas, cooking/baking areas and cleaning and canning areas.

Community Market & Farm

Seed Library 800sf Proper climate controlled space to store and distribute non-GMO, heirloom seeds. Will assists incubator and surrounding community with urban agriculture endevors to encourage community member to start growing in their own backyards.

Community Garden Will consists of two major areas: raised community garden plots and a commercial greenhouse. Garden plots are available to residents for personal and educational purposes, and are also sponsored for elders, group homes, childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s groups, the mentally disabled, and other local charaties. Once community members have obtained proper certification, the commercial greenhouse produces bedding plants and hydroponic vegetables that can be sold in the grocery store or during weekly markets.

Business Incubator 1200 sf An open-office format to enhance cross-deciplinary productivity. Provides spaces and staffing to launch new businesses: conceptual business planning, financing, marketing, graphic and package design, production, networking, etc.

Composting Area Covered Truck and Vendor Area

Support

Circulation/Elevator & Stairs Dumbwaiter Provide transportation for food. Public Restrooms Employee Breakroom Maintenance Staff/Janitorial Support Mechanical/Electrical/Plumbing Truck Loading Area & Dumpster Storage

1500sf A storefront retail center in Hollygrove offering locally-grown, affordable, fresh produce as well as â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;green jobsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; certification programs in urban agriculture.

Commissary for Food Trucks 1500 sf A place in support of the mobile food industry. This facility is all about getting the food to the people. What better way than local food-trucks? This will give mobile food businesses an opportunity to get involoved with the efforts being made to enhance the community. Professional chefs could assist in educational activities and also have access to the commercial kitchen to benefit their business needs.

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Liberty’s Kitchen

statewide growers

regional growers

Culinary Incubator

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Market delivers to

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GPC 25 m

Local Schools

Community Garden

Business Incubator

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Food Distribution

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Community Market& Farm 1500sf 30’x50’

Think Tank 3000sf 50’x60’

Business Incubator 1200sf 30’x40’ Commercial Kitchen 4000sf 50’x80’ Greenhouse 500sf 20’x25’

Commissary for Food Truck Vendors 1500sf 30’x50’

Seed Bank 800sf 20’x40’

Food Bank 500sf 20’x25’

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Community Market

Food Bank Program Spaces Public Space Private Space

COMMUNITY

Mixed Use Space

Commissary for Food Truck Vendors

Business Incubator

PREPARE Commercial Kitchen

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Think Tank

Industry Farm

GROW Community Farms

Seed Bank

Greenhouse

SCHEMATIC DESIGN.

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DESIGN REVIEW Reviewers Response: “Thought your concept was strong-a new way to eat and relate together, and I feel like the building you proposed reflects a new type of building that expresses that well.” “Good pulling of main ideas from your precedents to apply to your project.” “During a presentation, skip more of the background information to give yourself more time to focus on your proposal and model.” “What does it mean to walk down the street, how do the trees relate to your buildings, in a way the trees aren’t so dissimilar to your building as far as shade and frequency.” “What’s happening on the second floor of the exsisting building?” “Breaking up parking to three areasgreat idea.” “You have some strong ideas: opening ground planes, making connections beyond site, weaving structures. Your gut feeling is strong and starting to shape a space-keep developing.” “Lifting addition building off the ground plain responds well to the flooding problem.” “I like the idea that you have to walk through the gardens to get inside.” “Possibly the mission statement comes after you explain the context. That might give us, the audience, a better idea of what your goal is with your mission.” “Aerial perspective and exploded axons do a good job of explaining the relationship between you different spaces. But I wish I had more time to spend on them.”

2.20.13 Personal Response: Overal I felt that the feedback I recieved during my review was great. There were multiple things I wish I could have elborated on during the presentaion that I just ran out of time to cover. I think I under estimated the amount of information I could cover during a ten minute presentatiion. I feel I often struggle with editing-out information I’d like to share during my presentations. Reviewers responses prove that this is true. The majority of the written responses I recieved emphasised the struggle I had with time management of information being presented. I spent far more time covering the background and history of New Orleans on a larger scale and not enough time covering my own personal proposal and model. If there was anything I could change about my presentaion technique it would be this. After my presentaion I felt a little disappointed with myself that I did not spend my time covering content that I really needed feedback on. Luckily, my background information, precedents and concept were strong. This information allowed for the reviewers to understand where I was going with my ideas before I began presenting my own proposal. Reviewers seemed to understand and appreciate the idea of lifting the building off the ground plane. They felt it responded well to the issue of historical flooding issues and was beginning to shape the space of the site. Reviewers felt this concept could also relate to the trees of New Orleans. The large oak trees created so much confortable shade for the city and felt my building concept proposal was doing the same for our site. I would like to develope this idea more. I think it could really ring in my ideas and relate them more to the overall city as well. For the furture, I will have more concise explanations of the precedent studies I share to continue to utilize the time used to explain them. I will also spend less time going into depth on the background story and historical information. I will do this by developing short summaries of each point and relate multiple diagrams to one another to bring the large picture together in a more efficient way.

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DESIGN REVIEW

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What does the building really look like, aesthetically? The concept and presentation were highly complimented but many were dying to know what the true exterior facade is. Reviewers appreciated the economic nature of the building, it is very realistic, but how can you address the facade without being a big â&#x20AC;&#x153;Aâ&#x20AC;? architect? This is a difficult thing to accomplish but is certainly a question I have been battling with. My goal is to develop this and still maintain the reality of how this building could truly function. Think about the elevation of the stair, could this concept begin to add aesthetics to the facade as well. Can this pattern be pulled to the facade wall too? Can the storage behind the stair take place below the 3-foot flood plain? If it is just storage I think this would work fine but you may need more research to back this up. A great way to put into perspective how much the urban agriculture can produce would be to do research on how much an urban farming gardening production could produce and then apply that to how many people it could feed. Compare these things to the average student population enrolled in neighboring schools to show how much my site could benefit the surrounding community.

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tool storage

N. DORGENOIS STREET

extensive green roof

urban agriculture shade house

composting

food truck parking & loading Liberty’s Kitchen outdoor pavilion

public parking

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extensive green roof public urban agriculture

BIENVIL

rain garden

“green gathering” stairs

projection screen

rooftop water collection

LE STRE

public courtyard photovoltaics

public urban agriculture

BROAD STREET

public parking

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garden & recreation storage

entrance

carts cafe deli

checkout

produce

recycling

teaching kitchen

shelf goods

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meat

wash

cooler

demonstration lecture

cooler storage

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dairy cooler

frozen

food truck commissary

cold work

food distribution dry storage

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Critiquer acknowledged that they could tell I believe in designing from the inside out and believed I could push this even further for the next step of design development. What I have proposed for the accessibility to mybuilding does not seem reasonable during one critique. I currently have placed an elevator inside cafe within the exsisting building. I could possibly reconsider putting an elevator in the solid service core of the addition to the site. I considered doing this before but found the spacial arrangement to be diffcult. I think I should revisit this idea to explore what options could be available. One reviewer said the basketball court addition to the site is a great way to bring people to my site that may not have entered otherwise. Once they are there you have the opportunity to draw them in more. The “stair-plaza” has the potential of becoming a beautiful place. Think about how you I need to think about how I can start to pull some of the step out past the boundary of my grid. It could make the elevation of the stair more interesting. The covered parking/basketball/entertainment space works well but if you are thinking it can start to project movie or images on the side don’t design it just for that. Make that function it’s secondary function because it will not be a project surface always. I could even think about how movies could be projected from behind the “screen”. What kind of material could work for this so the technological side of this could be hidden away?

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meeting

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exhibition

think tank

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greenhouse

seed bank

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The concept I have applied to the entire site was seen as very strong and many critiques liked how I have maintained this out into the landscape yet broken the pattern a bit to let it there be moments to breathe. When you begin to address the facade of your building start to take this idea into consideration. How is it that I can allow my building to have the lightness of material I’m looking for but be interesting and varied at the same time? The facade could begin transform into the same pattern that exsist in the landscape, at certain moments it could start to reveal the life happening inside.

The work at Kengo Kuma could serve as inspiration to these ideas. His theory of material is to maintain a clarity of structural solution, implied technonics, and importance of light and transparency. He does not restrain himself to the banal and superficial use of “light” material. Instead he goes deeper, extending to the mechanisms of composition to expand the possibilities of materiality. He utilizes technological advancements which can challenge unexpected materials, such as stone, into providing the same sense of lightness and softness as glass or wood. Kuma attempts to attain a sense of spatial immateriality as a consequence of the ‘particulate nature’ of the light and establishing a relationship between a space and the natural round around it.

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1 business incubator

3 food bank

2 think tank

4 seed bank

5 liberty’s kitchen

6 teaching

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45’

30’

15’

7 shade house

9 tool storage

8 food truck commisary

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The structure I proposed seems like a very responsible response to the environmental challenges in New Orleans. Although the amount of structural beams Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m proposing are part of my design concept, all that structure is not necessary. It was suggested to remove some, it would also make the cost of the building decrease. Having the urban agriculture on the roof is a great idea but there could be some concern for the amount of vegetation the existing structure can hold. There should be no problem with this structure supporting the weight as long as I design the layout of the agriculture efficiently. It is important to know which plants have a deeper root structure than others and how much water they will retain. After considering these things I should plan for the heavier plants to exists within the structureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s zone of tributary. This is where the connections of the structure are the very strongest, so the weight of the agriculture can be distributed in a more controlled way.

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12”x18” tapered concrete beam 18”x18” concrete column 12”x18” concrete beam; 12” x 36” concrete beam

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Technical Narrative Design Requirements

Sizing Structural System

15,000 sq. ft building addition to the exsisting 59,000sq. ft. building and it’s surrounding site

Columns: With bays at 24’x32’, each column’s dimension will be 18in x 18in.

Design structural components that are economic to construction

The bays dimensions are derived from the pattern of the existing building.

Ceiling height of at least 9’-0”

Beam Depth: The beam design will be design with density to resemble the waffle slab construction of the exsisting building.

Sprinkler fire protection Building Code and Occupancy According to the International Building Code, the given institute falls within the following occupany group: A-2: consists of spaces used for social, recreational, entertainment, and civic gatherings of 50 or more people. This group includes food and drink establishments. This division includes a broad ange of assembly-type uses not specifically falling under other Assembly subdivisions, for example, auditoriums, churches, community halls, courtrooms, dance halls, gymnasiums, lecture halls, libraries, museums, nonresidential schools and colleges, and other public gathering facilities. Building Height and Area Limitation Because the building is sprinklered, type II-A construction may be used with 1-hour partitions, maintaining floor area well below the maximum 62,000 sq. ft. per floor with non-combustible construction. Construction Type Concrete may be used, as well as reinforced on all columns, beams, joists, and decking. Structural steel may also be used with a 1-hour rated protection. Selecting a Structural System The resulting decision on a structural system is a two-way slab and beam concrete construction. This decision was made based on the conceptual design concept that ties in the existing building to the new addition.

The girders will be sized as 12in x 18in tapered concrete beams. The beams will be sized accordingly to fit within the dimisions of the tapered beam. Although some beams may be over sized, I feel it is necessary to the aesthetic quality of the construction. These beams will consists of 12in x 18in and 12in x 36in. Mechanical and Electrical Systems VRV stands for Variable Refrigerant Volume, also known in the wider industry as variable refrigerant flow (VRF). A VRV/VRF system is still the only commercial system that continuously adjusts the refrigerant volume within the system to match exactly the heating or cooling requirement in each area, for optimum comfort and maximum energy efficiency.

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DESIGN REVIEW

4.17.13

Critic 1:

Critic 3:

The skylights that you are starting to develop are the strongest part of the project. It would be nice to see these with an angle that takes advantage of sun angles and bring light down into the spaces more efficiently. The parapet of your outer shell may not have to be as high so one can begin to see these skylights and their profile run along the sky from a lower vanishing point.

The basketball courts at also inhabit the parking lot strong address the urban context of the city. Realistically you must consider how this section of the site can have a barrier between the parking lot and the basketball courts. Reconfigure how the cars will move through the lot so this portion of the lot can be blocked off during times of the day where it is not needed. It could simply become a landscaping element building into the curb. It does not have to be a large physical barrier but a definite visual barrier.

It is important that in section you show where your duct work is. Even if it is not really seen from that point in the section youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve cut. It can be shown diagrammatically if it is farther in the plane. Critic 2: The idea for the courtyard and public gardening area is very strong. The stairs become a communal hub for the site. By bring these stairs out more into the landscape the idea will come more full circle. Integrate the stair with the landscape so thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a more gradual transition between the natural landscape and the man-made stair.

The overall design approach to the site is very strong. Research Seamless Urban Design. How can you start to engage all sides of the site? Bring landscaping or bioswales farther to the edges of the site. Create pathways and small bridges that go over these zones when accessing the site from all directions and then people are required to become engaged with the site and become educated via interaction. Critic 6: Integrate more rain garden concept into central landscaping. How the rain water is collected can feed more directly to the garden spaces. The rooftop is very industrial; add large cisterns to the roof top to advertise the industrial aspect of the plane.

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1in.

32ft.

garden & recreation storage

entrance

carts cafe deli

checkout

produce

recycling

teaching kitchen

shelf goods

cooler loading/trash outtake

meat

wash

cooler

demonstration lecture

cooler storage

cold storage

dairy cooler

frozen

food truck commissary

cold work

food distribution dry storage

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Critic 4:

Critic 6:

The hardie panel seems to be a good explanation for their economic value but in the long run they could require a lot of maintenance cost. Either consider a hardie panel that has the color integrated into the material or consider galvaloom metal panels or tesla panels similar to panels John Ronan uses.

There needs to be a circulation core that reaches from the ground level to the upper levels. This core should include the stair and also the elevator for this addition. This could happen in the bay-core that holds the larger circulation stair. A larger mechanical room can also be addressed in this area. At the ground level of the solid core can become larger store front glazing. This becomes the face of the underside of the building.

Critic 5: Reconsider the window configurations. They are not reading well in elevation. Open façade up more and think about the underlying pattern of the entire façade. Clearstories might be in shade, analyze how these could function. If they are not function then just remove them, they may not be necessary. Introduce a light shelf on the exterior façade to bring more light deeper into the building.

Consider a service elevator from rooftop to interior core of existing building. This can make the activity on the roof more connected to the shipping and processing happening beneath in the existing building. Begin to address the existing building and its façade. Open up the front of these façades so there’s a more visual connection to the interior. The material on the upper bar of the existing building should tie materials back to what the second elevation is.

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Critic 4: Consider how the steel secondary frame of the metal shell connects to the concrete, epoxy could be a good solution. This structural frame should be galvanized steel to bear the exterior elements but you must think about how the pieces are connected together because once steel has been galvanized it cannot we welded on site. It is good the decision has been made to keep these operable panels simple and not on a mechanical operation system. It adds character and a since of ownership to the faรงade. One can easily operate these panels with the pinning system but make sure there is a more sophisticated locking system for hurricane weather. Know if these panels lock in the open or closed position during the high winds and how they stay within this position.

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Final Documentation.

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Idea+Nature Diagrams

Existing Conditions

Public Access to Site

Existing Structural Grid

Division of Public and Private Activity

Site Threshold

Free Ground for Activity

Program Seperation and Elevation

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tool storage

N. DORGENOIS STREET

extensive green roof

urban agriculture shade house

composting

food truck parking & loading Liberty’s Kitchen outdoor pavilion

public parking

I STRE

CONT

extensive green roof public urban agriculture

projection screen

rooftop water collection

LE STRE

public courtyard photovoltaics

public urban agriculture

BROAD STREET

BIENVIL

rain garden

“green gathering” stairs

public parking

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basketball court

covered gathering

community gardens

mech. garden storage/ wash area

community gardens

entrance carts

cafe

deli

checkout

produce

recycling

teaching kitchen

shelf goods

cooler loading/trash outtake

meat

wash

cooler

demonstration lecture

cooler storage

dairy

cold storage

cooler

dry storage

compost drop off

compost processing

frozen

food truck commissary

cold work

food distribution

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ground level

32ft. 1

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think tank

greenhouse seed bank

libertyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kitchen

composting

libertyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kitchen event space

libertyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kitchen administration

classroom industry farming stor. classroom

aquapontic

storage/work space

1in.

second level

16ft. 1

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business incubator

food bank

greenhouse

1 1in.

third level

16ft.

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ammonia nitrate

bioswale overflow

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ammonia nitrate

nitrate

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