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Professor Grover Mouton Design Urbanism Seminar Interpretive Urban Design Seminar
Fall 2013
Overview
On February 14, 1957, leaders of the Civil Rights movement came together in New Orleans to form the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Following on the heels of the Montgomery bus boycott, Martin Luther King, Jr. and other organizers met at the New Zion Baptist Church at the corner of Third St. and Lasalle to form an organization that could coordinate nonviolent direct action as a method of desegregating bus systems across the South, eventually taking on wider issues of segregation nationwide.
Site History
The 1957 founding of the SCLC, while seemingly only a moment in history, finds its place within the larger Civil Rights Movement, a defining era in our country’s history. These civil rights meetings occurred in and around the New Zion Baptist Church, including Shakespeare Park, now named for the Reverend A.L. Davis, Jr., who was a key figure in local civil rights actions. The site hosted Martin Luther King, Jr., utilized for strategizing further bus boycotts and other peaceful demonstrations, marching down Lasalle Street to City Hall, and more generally outlining the approach and tone of wider regional actions. Bravery and persistence amongst local civil rights activists helped to turn the tide in the national fight for equality, this site formed an important battleground for the movement. The interpretation of the historic events through creative place-making is intended to cement their position in New Orleans and Louisiana history. Pastor Christmas Gordon, leader of the New Zion Baptist Church, remarked that despite growing up just blocks away from the Church, he did not hear these civil rights stories until he became New Zion’s pastor. Designing a place for contemplation of local civil rights achievements and the national implications of Martin Luther King’s visits and planning meetings will provide a strong source of pride for New Orleans, allow future generations to understand these events, and draw visitors to an important cultural corridor that includes the Dew Drop Inn, Flint Goodridge Hospital, A.L. Davis Park, and gatherings of the Mardi Gras Indians. The students investigated a series of three sites along the La Salle Street corridor, near to the New Zion Baptist Church, with the potential to propose interventions that extend beyond the immediate sites if they could find a compelling reason to do so. All three sites are currently vacant and vary in size and shape, allowing for the students to test a large number of potential interventions. Some students chose to focus upon a single site, some upon all three, and some who chose to expand the boundaries of the site into the sidewalks and neutral ground.
Program
The program for the sites was that of an interpretive center, intended to encourage reflection upon the historic events that took place upon the site. The students were encouraged to also incorporate public gathering space into the design to generate activity on the site. How they accomplished these goals was up to the students, relying primarily upon the deployment of pavilions, memory walls, and signage strategies.
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Site Context LaSalle Project
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Churches
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Empty Lots v Green Space LaSalle Project
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Bus Stops
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Final Site Choice LaSalle Project
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Previous Perspective
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La Salle Civil Rights Proposal Research Michelle Carroll Graduate - Thesis Year Interpretive Urban Design Seminar
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emphasis on importance of public space
Historical Research
MLK’s visits to New Orleans Start of the SCLC on February 14, 1957 & Meeting that was called off “in Interest of Safety” on December 14, 1961
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visual connection down a corridor
Precedent: First Nations Garden Pavilion
Saucier + Perrotte Architects - Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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attractive gathering places
Precedent: Center City Pergolas & Park Pavilion Touloukian Touloukian Inc. - Greensboro, NC
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educational materials
Precedent: Civil Rights Heritage Trail
Renee Kemp-Rotan - Birmingham, Alabama
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improved walkability
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Site Analysis: Washington to Third Street Along LaSalle Central City, New Orleans, LA
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connecting neighborhoods
Initial Site Proposal: LaSalle Corridor
Improved Walkability: Crosswalk Upgrades - Improved Vegetation - Gathering Spaces
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program
timeline
“... need for an organization to be formed that could serve as a channel
through which local protest organizations in the South could coordinate their protest activities.”
past “... when our organization was formed 10 years ago ... alll types of conniving methods were still being used to
keep the Negro from becoming a registered voter ... “
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“... our citizen education program continues to lay the solid
foundation of an adult educa-
tion and community organization ... trained in literarcy, consumer education, planned par-
enthood, and many other things ...”
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“... the dignity of the individual will flourish when the decisions concerning his life are in his own hands,
when he has the assurance that his income is stable and certain, and when he knows that he has the means to seek self-improvement ...”
aesthetic
MLK, “Where do we go from here?” at the 11th Annual SCLC Convention, August 16 1967 “Dr. King championed a movement that draws fully from the deep well of America’s potential for free-
dom, opportunity, and justice. His vision of America is captured in his message of hope and possibility for a future anchored in dignity, sensitivity, and mutual respect; a message that
challenges each of us to recognize that America’s true strength lies in its diversity and talens. The vision of a memorial in honor of [MLK] is one that captures the essensce of his message, a message in which he so eloquently affirms the commanding tenants of the American Dream - Freedom, Democracy, and Opportunity for All ... “ -MLK Washington Memorial Vision Statment
Inspirational Quotes
Reference for Program and Design Aesthetic
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Exhibitions on Past Efforts of SCLC, Current Challenges towards for Civil Rights Leaders, and Future Goals Timeline Exhibition down LaSalle - Interventions at Intersections - Connecting Streets - Simple Aesthetics
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“but in spite of progress, the problem is far from solved. the deep rumbling of discontent in our cities in indicative of the fact that the plant of freedom has grown only a bud and not yet a flower.” - MLK, “Where Do We Go From Here”, 16 August 1967
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second phased intervention • corten steel and mirror material • place for meeting and reflection • potential connection to church • gesturing toward group meeting • increased greenery • anish kapoor - mirrors
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“when we allow freedom to ring - when we let it ring from every city and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, ‘Free at last, Free at last, Great God a-mighty, We are free at last.” - MLK, “I Have a Dream”
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• last (third) phased intervention • corten steel, mirror, and glass material • shade structure • separate place for sitting • increased greenery • focused on plans for civil rights progress sergio redegalli - glass
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LaSalle Civil Rights Memorial New Orleans, LA Emily Edmisten 4th Year M.Arch Interpretive Urban Design Seminar
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Memorial to Victims of Violence Gaeta-Springall Arquitectos Mexico City, Mexico
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Site Diagrams
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Corner Site Render
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Median Render
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Urban Design: Civil Rights Memorial Amy Federman 3rd Year, M-ARCH Interpretive Urban Design Seminar
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La Salle Civil Rights Research Proposal Central City Neighborhood
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Identiflying 2 sites to occupy: The more private but significant “Church Site,” and the busier “Triamgle Site”
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Neighborhood Parks/Greenspace/ Cemetaries Neighborhood parks/ Greenspace/ Cemetaries
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Proximity to Save America’s Treasures Neighborhood Proximity to “Save America’s Treasures” Neighborhood joined with cemeteries provides a rich historical context for site
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Bus Stops at Both Proposals Bus Stops at both proposals
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Idea of path to connect the sites, using the path as another memorial/ work of art in itself. Must keep materiality consistent to have the paths purpose readable
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Precedents:
Holocaust Memorial - Boston, MA
Looking at a memorial as something you can walk through and experience as a procession
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Veterans Memorial Park - Marblehead, MA
Looking at a memorial as a public space for the community to occupy
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Precedents: Paths
Different options for path types more natural v. more developed
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Other Ideas:
“I Witness, Central City”
The Central City neighorhood has been working to change their image through organizations such as “I Witness, Central City,” where they record and publish residents’favorite memories of the neighborhood.
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Using this “Triangle Site” as a base/context site for the project. This site may include a map identifying the key historical aspects of the neighborhood, with great emphasis pointing towards the Civil Rights Memorial at the Church Site. This would be more of a community park space, with potential signs indicating interesting things about the neighborhood, such as “I Witness, Central City” quotes, mardi gras indian stories, information/pictures of the once thriving Dryades street, and acounts of the famous Jazz legends that occupy/occupied the neighborhood.
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“Faith is taking the first steps, even when you can’t see the whole staircase.”
Using the path to connect the “Triange Site” and the “Church Site” to bring the spaces together, with the path being an instillation as well. While the siewalk might be developed differently, there could also be a glass panal running through the street divider to attract additional attention from traffic/other pedestrians. The glass panal is a great oppertunity for additional quotes leading up to the Civil Rights Memorial.
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Having a more specifically Civil Rights installation at the “Church Site.” This could be a series of processional pavillions people could walk through, with seating and informational plaques/quotes along the side. The final space is a glass enclosed box surrounded by bars, with the bars breaking at the entry to signify King’s civil rights breakthrough contributions. The glass structure would house framed copies of the articles from when King came to New Orleans, accompanied by some background info. The site also provides a bus stop bench to hep bring people into the site as a public space.
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Civil Rights Memorial New Orleans, LA Zoe Grosshandler 3rd Year M.Arch Interpretive Urban Design Seminar
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Initial Site Investigation All three potential sites
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Site Selection
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Adjacency to Neutral Ground New Orleans Protest March Route, 1963 Prominent Views of Site
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Civil Rights Movement Artwork
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Signage
Artwork + Materiality
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Pinnacles Interpretive Center Woodhead Architects, Western Australia
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The High Line
Field Operations & Diller Scofidio + Renfro, NYC
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Site Proposal
Civil Rights Memorial
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View from Simon Bolivar Pavilion
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View from Simon Bolivar Neutral Ground
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LA SALLE STREET HISTORICAL CORRIDOR
CIVIL RIGHTS MEMORIAL PROPOSAL & RESEARCH Jenny Renn Key
Master of Architecture, Year I
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Neighborhood History and Significance Pre-Conditions
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Historic Lasalle Street Corridor & O.C.Haley Blvd. --”gathering place for many renowned African-American entrepreneurs, musicians, and political and social activists in the 1940s and 1950s” --”activity suffered from decades of population loss and disinvestment” “redevelopment of the corridor as a unique opportunity to encourage economic inclusion for residents of one of the city’s true cultural treasures”
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Significant Central City Historical & Current Landmarks Existing Conditions
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Shakespeare Park (A.L. Davis Park) Est. 1859 DewDrop Inn 1939-1960 AshĂŠ Cultural Arts Center St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard Free Southern Theater Keystone Insurance Company Flint-Goodridge Hospital Dryades Street YMCA
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Potential Site Locations & Context Existing Conditions
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POTENTIAL SITE LOCATIONS (ALONG LASALLE / SIMON BOLIVAR AVE) NEW ZION BAPTIST SCHOOL & CHURCH (CONNECTION TO SITE’S DEVELOPMENT) VEGETATION (WITHIN SITES’ VIEW) MAIN TRANSIT CORRIDOR (BUS STOPS) LARGE PARKING LOT (STREET PARKING) DESIGNATED PARK ZONE (AL DAVIS PARK)
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Potential Site Location Factors Analyzed Conditions
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POTENTIAL SITE LOCATIONS (ALONG LASALLE / SIMON BOLIVAR AVE) STREET LIGHTS CROSSWALKS (AND LACK OF CONNECTIVITY) UNDEVELOPED LOTS
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“Every community has a rich history and many compelling special stories to tell about its past and the former residents who lived, married, raised families, started businesses, and undertook community and civic projects.�
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-Beatley
Timothy Beatley’s Native to Nowhere provides an in depth look at proven strategies that communities have used to strengthen place. Here is a condesnsed list of community strategies that the LaSalle Street Corridor could conider in this desig suggestion and/or any other neighborhood projects:
1. ENHANCE THE PRESENCE OF HISTORY & HERITAGE 2. CONNECT STUDENTS TO PLACE 3. REESTABLISH & SUSTAIN CONNECTIONS WITH LAND & LANDSCAPE 4. USE ART TO ENHANCE THE PRESENCE OF HERITAGE IN COMMUNITIES 5. PROVIDE PEDESTRIAN CONNECTIVITY THROUGH GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN 6. ESTABLISH STREET CELEBRATIONS, PARADES, AND OTHER ACTIVE COMMUNITY ART 7. BRING YOUNG AND OLD TOGETHER 8. NURTURE AND SUPPORT LOCAL ARTISTS
Potential Site Concepts: Strengthening Place
Precedents & Strategies
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INTERACTIVE / TOUCH MONUMENT / ATTRACTION GATHERING / SOLITUDE MEMORIAL / INFORMATION
CIVIL RIGHTS MEMORIAL
Potential Site Concepts: Interactive & Informative Design
Precedents & Strategies
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INSIDE / OUTSIDE GATHERING / SOLITUDE ENCLOSED / OPEN MEMORIAL / INFORMATION
FINAL WOODEN HOUSE / SOU FUJIMOTO
Potential Site Concepts: Courtyard & Active Design Precedents & Strategies
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ENDESA PAVILION BY IAAC, BARCELONA
CASA CUMBRES BY TALLER HECTOR BARROSO
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DAYTIME / NIGHTTIME GATHERING / PASSAGE ENCLOSED / OPEN
OUTDOOR CLASSROOM - COLLABORATION BETWEEN UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS, THE NON-PROFIT DOWNTOWN LITTLE ROCK COMMUNITY DESIGN CORPORATION
Potential Site Concepts: Daytime/Nighttime, Open Air Design Precedents & Strategies
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Potential Site Concepts: “Sketch� Rendering Strategies
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DESIGN STRATEGIES:
DAYTIME / NIGHTTIME GATHERING / PASSAGE ENCLOSED / OPEN MEMORIAL / INFORMATION MONUMENT / ATTRACTION
Potential Site Concepts: “Sketch” Rendering Strategies
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outdoor courtyard / open air pavilion would include colorful graphics that would show either a timeline or other educational facts of the LaSalle Street Corridor and the historical significance of the neighborhood. Small brightly painted seats would allow for a resting place in the shade to This design of an
observe these facts as well as a place where the church could hold
educational talks about the history of the neighborhood. This pavilion would provide illumination at night to prevent crime and give off a sense of safety through light. A second phase might include a small storage or restroom shelter in the back of the site. Three trees could be planted in a linear fashion to shelter the site from the
additional shade. Materiality would include warm woods to create an inviting space as well as bold punches of color to attract the eye toward the site. road and provide
Potential Site Concepts: “Sketch� Rendering Strategies
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CIVIL RIGHTS SYMBOLS:
GATHERING EDUCATION GROWTH EVOLUTION 1. ENHANCE THE PRESENCE OF HISTORY & HERITAGE / USE ART TO ENHANCE THE PRESENCE OF HERITAGE IN COMMUNITIES 2. CONNECT STUDENTS TO PLACE 3. REESTABLISH & SUSTAIN CONNECTIONS WITH LAND & LANDSCAPE
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La Salle St. Civil Rights Memorial Kate Luxner 2nd Year Graduate Interpretive Urban Design Seminar
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School Churches Parks
Sites in Neighborhood Context Street Section
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Cemetery Medical Centers
Civil Rights March Route, 1963
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Connectivity and View Corridors
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Letter from a Birmingham Jail Martin Luther King Jr.
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Preliminary Site Plan
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Vietnam Memorial
Roosevelt Memorial
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Local Precedents
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Color!
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Further Inspiration
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Site Plan
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Street Crossings
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Site 1: History
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Site 2: Community
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Site 3: Celebration
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LA SALLE CIVIL RIGHTS MEMORIAL DIANA MENDEZ GRADUATE- YEAR ONE
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MEMORIAL MURAL @ AL DAVIS PARK
MEMORIAL PLAQUE @ NEW ZION BAPTIST CHURCH
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EXISTING CONDITIONS
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MEMORIAL PRECEDENTS LA SALLE CIVIL RIGHTS MEMORIAL
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THRESHOLD/PASSAGE
INDIVIDUAL
COMMEMORATION
LIGHT/ILLUMINATION
KOZARAC MEMORIAL IN BOSNIA (SERBIAN GENOCIDE)
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LIGHT/ILLUMINATION
COMMEMORATION
THRESHOLD/PASSAGE
M9 MEMORIAL
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SEATING
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HISTORY HUMAN SCALE & USE SAN FRANCISCO EMBARCADERO RIBBON
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PROPOSED SITES
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BUS STOPS
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RESEARCH/ EVIDENCE
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“DARKNESS CANNOT DRIVE OUT DARKNESS: ONLY LIGHT CAN DO THAT. HATE CANNOT DRIVE OUT HATE, ONLY LOVE CAN DO THAT” -REV. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
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PAVILLION/ DESIGN MODULE
* COMMUNITY *GATHERING
* ILLUMINATION *SECURE PATHS
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TRANSPORTATION
* ACCESS *ROOTS OF THE PAST
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PROPOSED URBAN INTERVENTION
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PROPOSED URBAN INTERVENTION LA SALLE CIVIL RIGHTS MEMORIAL
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PROPOSED URBAN INTERVENTION
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EXTERIOR VIEW @ PAVILLIONLA SALLE/THIRD ST.
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“DARKNESS CANNOT DRIVE OUT DARKNESS: ONLY LIGHT CAN DO THAT. HATE CANNOT DRIVE OUT HATE, ONLY LOVE CAN DO THAT” -REV. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
PAVILLIONINTERIOR VIEW
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single family residential
two-family residential
open space/ park
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institutional campus
historic urban/suburban non-res.
multi-family residential
lasalle corridor [programmatic amenities] bus stops
churches
harmony oaks development
cemetaries
AL Davis park
leidenheimer bakery
lasalle corridor
[programmatic amenities]
Interpretive Urban Design Seminar
Fall 2013
site 3: memorial [public space component]
site 2: community center [relationship with A.L. Davis Park]
potential sites [three components]
Tulane Regional Urban Design Center
site 1: memorial [public space component]
site 1 + precedents
[three components]
Interpretive Urban Design Seminar
Fall 2013
site 2
Tulane Regional Urban Design Center
perspective
Interpretive Urban Design Seminar
Fall 2013
Tulane Regional Urban Design Center
Lasalle Street Civil Rights Memorial Benjamin Tinklenberg Master’s Program, Year 1 Interpretive Urban Design Seminar
Fall 2013
Neighbohood Context
Lasalle Street in Central City , New Orleans
Tulane Regional Urban Design Center
Cemetery Empty Lots Parks
Interpretive Urban Design Seminar
Fall 2013
Civil Rights and the Early Southern Christian Leadership Council New Zion Baptist Church and New Orleans, LA
Tulane Regional Urban Design Center
Meeting of MLK, Jr and AL Davis February 14, 1957
Interpretive Urban Design Seminar
Fall 2013
Carter G. Woodson Middle School / KIPP Academy
New Orleans, LA
Tulane Regional Urban Design Center
Churches and Education in the neighborhood
3.5 Sites for development
Interpretive Urban Design Seminar
Fall 2013
Sites 1 (Phase 1)+ 3 Traffic and Open Spaces
Tulane Regional Urban Design Center
Site2 (Phase 2) Pavilion
Interpretive Urban Design Seminar
Fall 2013
Tulane Regional Urban Design Center
Interpretive Urban Design Seminar
Fall 2013
Tulane Regional Urban Design Center
Interpretive Urban Design Seminar
Fall 2013
Tulane Regional Urban Design Center
Lasalle Civil Rights Proposal
Heather Tischler Fourth Year Interpretive Urban Design Seminar
Fall 2013
Tulane Regional Urban Design Center
Interpretive Urban Design Seminar
Fall 2013
Minnesota Fallen Firefighters
Tulane Regional Urban Design Center
Architect - Leo A. Daly Location - St. Paul, Minnesota Year - 2002 Reason - For the fallen firefighters of Minnesota Design - Pavillion - Interactive - similar location to our site
Interpretive Urban Design Seminar
Fall 2013
Death March of the Winter
Tulane Regional Urban Design Center
Vienna Public Garden 2009 Rose bushes covered with sacs. When winter is over the bushes are uncovered. Represents the struggle with winter, and the defeat of winter Transforamtion of the site Installation
Interpretive Urban Design Seminar
Fall 2013
Tulane Regional Urban Design Center
Downtown New Orleans
Hoffman Triangle
Lasalle + Third Surrounding Neighborhood
Interpretive Urban Design Seminar
Fall 2013
Neutral Ground Screen Site Plan Tulane Regional Urban Design Center
Screen Paintings - Mr. Brainwash Interpretive Urban Design Seminar
Fall 2013
Neutral Ground Installation Render Tulane Regional Urban Design Center
Interpretive Urban Design Seminar
Fall 2013
Bus Stop Locations Tulane Regional Urban Design Center
Interpretive Urban Design Seminar
Fall 2013
Bus Stop + Neutral Ground Interaction Tulane Regional Urban Design Center
Shelters + Bus Stops Interpretive Urban Design Seminar
Fall 2013
Tulane Regional Urban Design Center
Interpretive Urban Design Seminar
Fall 2013
Tulane Regional Urban Design Center
Interpretive Urban Design Seminar
Fall 2013
Tulane Regional Urban Design Center
La Salle Civil Rights Proposal Research
Yan Mary Tung M.Arch Year 1
Interpretive Urban Design Seminar
Fall 2013
National September 11 Memorial & Museum New York City, NY
Tulane Regional Urban Design Center
Hurricane Katrina Memorialal New Orleans, LA
Interpretive Urban Design Seminar
Fall 2013
Korean War Veterans Memorial Washington D.C.
Tulane Regional Urban Design Center
“Bricktopia�
Barcelona, Spain.
Interpretive Urban Design Seminar
Fall 2013
La Salle Street // First //Second // Third Streets Potential Sites
Tulane Regional Urban Design Center
Bus Stops
Interpretive Urban Design Seminar
Fall 2013
Churches
Tulane Regional Urban Design Center
Rendering #1
Interpretive Urban Design Seminar
Fall 2013
Tulane Regional Urban Design Center
Rendering #2
Interpretive Urban Design Seminar
Fall 2013
Rendering #3
Tulane Regional Urban Design Center
Interpretive Urban Design Seminar
Fall 2013
Tulane Regional Urban Design Center