By [ WATER ]

BY [WATER] COMMUNITY CENTER & HOUSING Progression with Precaution

[BIM] PULNUPON SUEB-AI email:bim.suebai@yahoo.com

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[BY] WATER Community & Housing Center Collaboration with Anqi Yang (community center) 3095 North Rampart St.

By Water District New Orleans , Louisiana.

STUDIO OBJECTIVE As New Orleans faces a future in which widespread abandonment is a real possibility,the team has been chosen to design a 20-Unit Apartment Building, a net zero affordable housing building for displaced residents of the 9th Ward and a Community Services Center, featuring community services, a Visitor’s and Green Building Resource Center, an arts and cultural component, and an emergency center. For emergency needs, a rain water harvesting system will collect water (with filtration bringing it to drinking water standards), and solar panels on the roof of the Center will charge batteries that will provide power for emergency.

Professor LaRaine Papa Montgomery Winter 2014

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Statement

[BY] WATER

Dedicated the

to

serve

project

will

the

community,

advance

a

unique

vision for the contiuing growth of the district, providing housing and services

for

festivities, and

a

year

events,

recreational

round

performances,

purposes

for

all

residents. Based on the concept of [ progression

with

precaution],

the

goal is to educate community about environmental

responsibility,

sustainability, and climate change.

As we move forward into the future, we

must

happened

not in

forget the

learn from it.

past

of

what but

had

rather

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Site

USA

Louisiana

Gulf of Mexico

NOLA re-representing the site

New Orleans,Gulf Coast

The area west or “above” the Canal has sometimes been called the “Upper Ninth Ward.”

Such distinctions arose when the Industrial Canal bisected the neighborhood in the 1920s.

Bywater District

population density

site contours

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The Disappering [Delta]

Louisiana Delta

prevailing winds

site flood

It was built over thousands of years by the Mississippi River. The river picks up silt full of nutrients, minerals and soil particles all along its course. There is a natural coastal wetlands at the mouth of the Mississippi. This wetlands were replenished and fed every few years when the river flooded, and the silt and mud was spread over a wide area. These wetlands made a natural buffer and protection for New Orleans against storms and hurricanes moving over the Gulf of Mexico. As a hurricane moved over the miles of wetlands, it would lose some of its power. The wetlands would soak up a lot of the storm, and act as a shield for New Orleans.

However, these wetlands have been disappearing at an alarming rate. Over the past 50 years, more than 1,000 square miles of Louisiana have been lost. If nothing is done to prevent this loss of wetlands, New Orleans and other coastal cities will be directly exposed to the Gulf storms. In that case, it will not take a major hurricane to devastate these cities: much smaller storms will be disastrous.

9th ward flood

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Transformation Diagram

[ BIOMIMICRY ]

Sphagnum-native moss to NOLA

[moving & storing]

trace

identify pattern

define geometry

transformation

horizontal

transformation

vertical

Architects today seek nature for inspiration and answers to solve design problems. Nature is our mentor, model, and measure. We have to recognize that we are a part of, not apart from, nature. Seeking nature’s advice at all stages of design may allow us one day become one with nature again.

[Biomimicry] is the new design solution for the future, it identifies nature’s blueprints and emulate its time tested phenomena, patterns, and principles and mimicking how living organisms have survived and thrived over the 3.8 billion years life has existed on Earth. Identify patterns in nature and adapt these patterns will help us solve human problems.

site organization

deifne geometry

storage

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site organization

we identify the pattern and principle of organism’s design which its funtctions are to move and store water. It stores water for later use in dry season and moves water out when its full. Base of on nature’s concept of moving and storing, we emulates and utilized this nature design as guidelines to our desing solution.

water force

edge condition

wind force

site arrangement

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Site Plan

Lobby L Boardwalk Water Collection

Bio-swales

Land mound

Residential Housing with roof garden

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Community Center

Swimming Pool

Fire Station

Communal Plaza/ Bridge

Entrance

Existing Horse Stable/ Market

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Site section

In animate design, gradient forces are applied as direct abstract analogies for environmental influences, such as wind and water, and contextual phenomena, such as pedestrian and vehicular movements, urban vistas, configurations, patterns and intensities of use, etc. It is the dynamics of forces, or, more precisely, force fields, as an initial condition that produces the motion and the particular transformations of form, i.e. the digital morphogenesis. Objects interact with each other instead of just occupying space; they become connected through a system of interactions where the whole is always open to variations as new fields of influence are added or new relations made, creating new possibilities.

Bird’s eye NW corner

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SITE SECTION ELEVATION

SITE PLAN

NW Entrance

Main East Entrance

Bio Swales

Under landscape Broadwalk

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Housing Unit

TRABECULAR

The advanced model is built for analyzing the working principles of the trabecular bone. Those beams are narrow

in

their

endpoints.

This

middle

parts

structure

and is

wider designed

in

their as

a

self-adjustment system which have higher resistance for the wind forces from all directions.

longitudinal section

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STRUCTURE

transverse section

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By [WATER]

[No matter what we do, nature will always balance itself out]

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