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.
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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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