PROF. JOHN KLINGMAN | FALL 2017
TULANE UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
Infrastructure, Water and Architecture, New Orleans An Extension of the Greater New Orleans Urban Water Plan Congo Square and Louis Armstrong Place
Urban Design/ Water Issues In the early twentieth century an emphasis on urban infrastructure projects was a dominant force in the United States. New Orleans undertook centralized city water supply, sanitary sewer system and storm drainage along with electrical, gas, communications and transportation systems. A century later Hurricane Katrina severely damaged these systems, and their piecemeal repair has proceeded; but a new paradigm has not been established. Under the auspices first of the Dutch Dialogues engagement and later through the Greater New Orleans Urban Water Plan led by Waggonner and Ball Architects, it is possible to project necessary and important new ideas for water infrastructure in the twenty-first century. In the Vision Report and the Urban Design volumes of the Urban Water Plan (see www.livingwithwater.com), principles are established that can be extended and tested through design case studies. In relating these principles to the morphology of New Orleans, substantial modification of the existing stormwater drainage system is proposed. The current system can be overwhelmed by the increasingly extensive volume of runoff, and the sentiment among officials and the public is that major changes are necessary. Within the Greater New Orleans Water Plan and in the neighborhood scale study of Dutch Dialogues II, principles emerged that can now be extended and tested through design. The principles begin with finding places to store rainwater instead of forcing the water into a system that requires immediate pumping. Related to this is the need to reestablish a high level of groundwater to prevent subsidence, partially through a new network of “wet,” constantly flowing canals, as opposed to the “dry” drainage canals that now exist.
Hydrology Currently, New Orleans drainage canals act as water channels primarily during rainstorms. The Urban Water Plan proposal is to maintain them “wet” as water management entities and urban amenities at all times. The hydrostatic pressure from the Mississippi River allows for a spring of freshwater to be generated near the river. These springs can provide a source of available water that flows by gravity towards the lake. Water from the canal acts as a groundwater recharge source during dry weather. During rainy weather, it becomes a component of the water retention/storm drainage system. In months of low water, river water can be pumped into the canal as necessary. Thus, an ability to accommodate differing flows is an important characteristic of the canal design. The water network will be designed as a recreational amenity for walking, biking, running, etc. Planting will improve local microclimate. Streets will bridge the water network. At these locations a cascade, perhaps with a movable weir can be considered, or a siphon under the street is possible. In dry weather the system may carry moving water only a few inches deep. In rainy weather the storm water retention/discharge system will expand its capacity to hold as much rainwater as possible or as long as possible. Stormwater holding and storage areas include floodable green spaces, lagoons and holding ponds that will lessen flooding in periods of heavy rainfall. The initial flow of water is contaminated with urban detritus, so filtering and bioremediation strategies are necessary. New buildings in the neighborhood can hold rainwater for graywater, fire protection and irrigation use. This decentralized water system utilizing rainwater would be particularly useful during long dry periods or in emergencies when water pressure is low. In the areas of the city near the Mississippi River, all of the surface runoff flows away from the river because of the natural levee. Thus, in the area of Congo Square, surface water flows from the many impervious surfaces of the Vieux Carre and can be intercepted at the site. This would reduce flooding in the Treme neighborhood and beyond. Eventually, discharged water would connect to the Claiborne Avenue Canal and an expanded Lafitte Greenway Canal.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG PARK REDEVELOPMENT
PROF. JOHN KLINGMAN | FALL 2017
Site This semester we are working within and around New Orleans’s most important and historic neighborhoods. The location is along North Rampart St., at the conjunction of the Vieux Carre and the Treme neighborhoods. Within walking distance of the site are most of the city’s venues for jazz, radio station WWOZ, and the existing sites of the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park, most notably the old U.S. Mint. The site of Storyville and other places seminal to the history of jazz are close by. Particularly important is Congo Square itself. Congo Square is one of the oldest and most important historic places in New Orleans. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, it was a place where slaves, free people of color and visitors mixed, particularly on Sundays when dancing and markets occurred. Later in the nineteenth century the Square again became a center of African-american musical activity relating specifically to the development of indigenous American musical forms. In the twentieth century much of Congo Square’s history and importance were ignored or forgotten. The space was renamed several times, also reducing its memory. Finally in the late 1960s it was subsumed into a larger development: Armstrong Park. Armstrong Park was the remnant of a decades old idea to create a performing arts center for New Orleans, modeled after Lincoln Center in New York. The first completed building was the Municipal Auditorium. In 1968 eight blocks of historic Treme were demolished to make way for the new center, including a park modeled after Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen. Hundreds of families were displaced from the neighborhood, and several buildings were eventually constructed. The park has never been successful as an urban space however; and despite a series of upgrades, it is still a rather bleak, underpopulated environment.
The New Armstrong Place The 2017 Rampart Street Streetcar has changed public perception of the street, and it is time to propose a new urban paradigm for Armstrong Park. Here are the primary goals: first is to reestablish the urban identity of Congo Square as a figural space. Second is to provide affordable housing to at least match the number of residences demolished for the park. Third is to provide extensive stormwater management infrastructure. Fourth is to add other nixed uses that promote a vibrant urban condition as a complement to the Vieux Carre, including a Louis Armstrong Musicians Center. Thus the revitalized Congo Square will be development that architecturally and environmentally brings this part of the historic city into the twenty-first century. For the purpose of urban design the studio site boundaries will include Congo Square, plus the eight blocks bounded by Rampart, St.Ann, St. Philip and N.Villere Sts. Design parameters include reconstruction of the urban street grid to the extent compatible with ground level activities. Building will conform to zoning code with fifty foot height limit; a waiver is possible to seventy feet. As the urban design proposals emerge, building specific programs will be developed.
Special Thanks Waggonner and Ball Architects: Thom Smith, John Kleinschmidt. Outside reviewers over the course of the semester included Mac Ball, Beth Jacob, Wes Michaels Angela Morton, Michael Nius, Chad Cramer, Fitz Sargent, Todd Erlandson and Joe Evans. Faculty reviewers included Grover Mouton, Tiffany Lin, Cordula Roser Gray and Irene Keil of Tulane School of Architecture.
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Influenced by the equally flooded city of Copenhagen, my aim was to introduce, to New Orleans, a new method of living with water. Showing water as intensely as possible and living with controlled water at your side, rather than pumping it away as fast as possible has health benefits, ecological and environmental benefits, as well as construction benefits (less money spent on repairs and maintenance). I wanted to allow plant life to dominate your frame of view when inside the park and allow for a constructive, and coherent relationship between all forms of life. The four large bodies of moving water on my site add a connection to the environment we cannot ignore, and allow for a brand new view of what New Orleans can look like.
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PROF. JOHN KLINGMAN | FALL 2017 | ELAINE DAMICO
The construction of Armstrong Park came at the cost of multiple blocks of residential fabric in Treme. Historically, construction of the neighborhood came at the cost of draining the existing swamp, erasing the natural cypress landscape. The intent of this project was to return these vital components back to the historic Treme neighborhood by restoring cypress swamps and residential fabric through flood plains and mixed income housing units.
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The site fronts N. Rampart St .creating a commercial corridor connecting to the CBD. With respect to this axis and the surrounding residential context on the interior of the site, the intervention holds the perimeter of the site and steps down in scale from the mixed-sue commercial and residential building along Rampart to the two-story senior housing units at the rear of the site. The street grid is returned to the site and canals are introduced to mirror this organization and maximize water storage capacity.
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PROF. JOHN KLINGMAN | FALL 2017 | ELAINE DAMICO
The organization of the Rampart Street mixed-use building responds to the typical carriage ways of the historic French Quarter—visitors are brought through a small passage between two buildings and into a large open court in the rear that presents the individual with views of the remaining site.
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The flood areas within these blocks are more private in nature; canal houses line the full capacity water storage canal and a cypress swamp occupies one block while a stepped seating area occupies the other, situated between the open market facing Congo Square on one side and the preserved Armstrong Park statues and sculptures. on the other.
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PROF. JOHN KLINGMAN | FALL 2017 | ELAINE DAMICO
The first floor of the North Rampart mixed-use building holds the commercial spaces: restaurants, retail spaces, community stores, and a theater on the Congo Square corner to serve as an indoors performance area for Congo Square visitors. Behind the theater is an openair market to provide shelter for overflow from gatherings of protection from the elements as well as an space for community members to buy and sell goods. A series of additive and subtractive processes produced a series of three primary planar surfaces on the Rampart building—the sunken balcony condition, the typical surface condition, and the projected balcony edge condition.
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north rampart street building sections through one unit and rear court (bottom left) and two units (right)
LOUIS ARMSTRONG PARK REDEVELOPMENT
PROF. JOHN KLINGMAN | FALL 2017 | ELAINE DAMICO
perspective showing the rear of the north rampart building and the canal houses with adjacent cypress swamp flood zone
perspective taken from congo square showing the open market, the row of canal houses with street frontage, and the rear of the north rampart building
LOUIS ARMSTRONG PARK REDEVELOPMENT
PROF. JOHN KLINGMAN | FALL 2017 | ANDREW GLASSMAN
The urban design strategy of this project was to create a linear park through the central axis of the site, to act as a connection to the lafitte greenway and jackson square. The park will become a new commercial corridor in the Treme neighborhood, with mixed use buildings on Dumaine street and along Rampart St. There is a central canal running through the site along the linear park that is designed to hold stormwater. The entire site is floodable; all buildings throughout the site are connected through an elevated pathway that allows pedestrians to navigage the site when flooded at high capacity
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PROF. JOHN KLINGMAN | FALL 2017 | ANDREW GLASSMAN
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PROF. JOHN KLINGMAN | FALL 2017 | JACQUELINE ESMAY
New Orleans is a water city, yet, most residents only interact with water when it threatens to enter their homes. The rising sea level is going to force New Orleans to change its relationship with water. This redesign explores the various ways infranstructure and people can interact with water.
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PROF. JOHN KLINGMAN | FALL 2017 | JACQUELINE ESMAY
AN EXTENSIVE GATE CURRENTLY SURROUNDS ARMSTRONG PARK; THIS REDEIGN FOCUSES ON RECONNECTING THE SITE WITH THE CITY BY REESTABLISHING PARTS OF THE STREET GRID AND CONNECTING CONGO SQUARE WITH OTHER HISTORIC SITES- JACKSON SQUARE, ST. AGUSTINE CHURCH, AND THE ORINGIAL LOCATION OF TRME’S FAMER’S MARKET- THROUGH STREET TREES.
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PROF. JOHN KLINGMAN | FALL 2017 | JACQUELINE ESMAY
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PROF. JOHN KLINGMAN | FALL 2017 | JACQUELINE ESMAY
A MIXED-USE BUILDING SITS PROUDLY ON NORTH RAMPART STREET. THE FIRST FLOOR OF THIS BUILDING IS A FOOD MARKET, DESIGNED WITH INDIVIDUAL STANDS FOR LOCAL VENDORS. ADDITIONALLY, THE AIR SHAFTS AND LIGHT WELLS PROMOTE AIR CIRCULATION TO ALLOW THE MARKET TO OPEN ITS GLASS FACADE ALONG NORTH RAMPART STREET AND BE UTILIZED AS AN OPEN-AIR MARKET.
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PROF. JOHN KLINGMAN | FALL 2017 | EMILY KANNER
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CONGO SQUARE AND ARMSTRONG PARK COUNTER PROJECT TEVA KAPLAN
The newly proposed Congo Square and Armstrong Park project seeks to create a more accessible and connected area, a place of respite, and a place where all the various “publics� are welcome and are drawn to explore. The project connects the French Quarter, Treme, and the Lafitte Greenway through the reintroduction of vehicular, pedestrian, and bicycle pathways. The street edges are reintroduced in a permeable and historic manner sensitive to the contextual scale despite allowing hints at the modern intervention within. In addition, the site addresses environmental concerns as it acts as a massive water holding tank, allowing visitors to see water and how it fluctuates as well as prevent flooding. The project is understood cyclically and sectionally. Three linear cantilevers provide public and community space hovering above while simultaneously preserving the natural qualities on the ground levels and providing shade. The presence of water creates a more pleasant environmental condition as the thick New Orleans air cools with the moving water. The project addresses many of the issues preventing the current iteration of the park from success including controlled perimeter, lack of program, and a missed opportunity for storm water management and storage.
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The project is at once large and small. The perimeter is composed of interpretations of double shotgun and two storey apartments on the residential streets while Rampart St offers townhouses back to the streetscape. The water within creates small spaces of respite within the bustling downtown area. The current oak trees with be augmented with additional oaks, cypress, and other water loving trees and plant-life. The water is a participatory element of the project at all water levels providing swimming and wading with water present and dry uses of the amphitheater pools in low water conditions. Axon Details
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This cantilever hosts a primarily public function for the newly developed area. The goal of this cantilever seeks to provide a leisure place for the closely located business districts, the Central Business District and the French Quarter. It is loosely based off of other food court type programs such as Boston’s Faneuil Hall or New York’s Eataly. The linear restaurant stall area fits each space between highlighted steel structure. The structure forces the patrons gaze back towards Rampart Street and down into the gathering space behind the Rampart Street buildings.
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This cantilever recreates a previously existing amenity in the Treme neighbourhood. Prior to the creation of Armstrong Park, one can see swimming pools in the old Sanborn Maps.This cantilever is almost entirely swimming pool. It flucuates depending on amount of rain. There is an observation deck directed back towards Rampart Street. Tunnels connect the different modes of egress underneath the water in a similar way as an aquarium. There are changing rooms as well, located behind the pool. 13
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PROF. JOHN KLINGMAN | FALL 2017 | NATHAN LEONARD
The Aquatic Stitch aims to strategically reintroduce density to the Treme while respecting the scale of the existing neighborhood. This proposal uses water to create a unique identity for each block that supports and builds community through the introduction of private and community gardens to support a new Treme Food Market along Rampart Street and small to medium-scale restaurant spaces throughout the site. This equitable, sustainable proposal contains high density housing, stitched with single-family townhouses, a new market and retail hub, a promenade park to support festivals, restaurants, community support spaces and a new Treme branch library.
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The redesign of Louis Armstrong Park began with the reintroduction of original street grid as armature for pedestrian, vehicular, and water circulation. The program near N Rampart contains mixed use of commercial, leaseable office space, and mixed income housing. Beyond it, Perseverance Hall has been maintained while an additive structure for museum space is proposed in conjunction with a recreational skate park to cater to Treme residents. Directly behind it flanking Treme St is a proposed institutional building to cater the existing school nearby and offer after hour programs. In order to give back the original housing that existed prior to the creation of the park, every other structure is programmed as housing in an attempt to give back residential urban fabric. Water retention works in a sequential method beginning at N Rampart with three relatively large bio-remediation ponds that collect water from French Quarter run off and building run off from the site. As the ponds fill in conjunction with the skate park, they eventually overtop into a central drainage collection that begins to fill a network of linear retention basins all leading towards the Lafitte Greenway as means to slowly carry the water to Bayou St John and eventually Lake Pontchartrain. The intervention of bio-remediation ponds is aimed to immediately start treating water so the concentration of pollutants entering the lake is lessened while exposing how a natural landscape can work within a dense urban fabric.
PROF. JOHN KLINGMAN | FALL 2017 | ERIC MCCUTCHEON
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PROF. JOHN KLINGMAN | FALL 2017 | ERIC MCCUTCHEON
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PROF. JOHN KLINGMAN | FALL 2017 | ERIC MCCUTCHEON
The mixed use building along N Rampart aims to provide space for economical gain, housing for the displaced, and green space as to preserve the function of a park. The bio-remediation ponds create moments of uninhabitability thus inhibiting congregation and recreation on the original Armstrong Park. To combat this intervention, the building steps down from Rampart to provide large scaled green roofs that provide both visual connections to Congo Square as well as the extents of the redevloped park and even south to the Mississippi River. This vertical stepping of terraces allows the general public to climb and conquer the building by means of exploration and provides familiar green urban landscapes with unrivaled views to all historic elements of the city. In order to break up the scale of the structure, the ground floor is articulated as a collonade reminiscent of the streets within the French Quarter protected from over-head galleries. Above the first floor is the introduction of a screening system that acts as defense from intense southern solar exposure and rain screen to exterior circulation. To give some relief to the large horizontal system, the figureground of historical context along the south side of N Rampart is used to draw alignments between breaks in the screen and breaks in the street facade that it looks onto. This break attempts to recreate a familiar sense of metering within a structure spanning two urban blocks.
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LOUIS ARMSTRONG PARK REDEVELOPMENT
PROF. JOHN KLINGMAN | FALL 2017 | TYLER MYRICK
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EXISTING BUILDINGS
MIXED USE COMMERCIAL ON FIRST FLOOR MIXED INCOME HOUSING
LIBRARY
My approach to this project was to create a series of public squares that would serve to enhance and communicate with major civic buildings on the site, while offering unique water experiences and retention value. The path of the squares connects the pre-existing school and community center, which belong to the Treme neighborhood, to the historic Congo Square which share grand importance in African American history. Bringing the street grid all the way back through the site will also help to reconnect treme to the rest of downtown and the quarter. It is meant to undo the deliberate and frustrating, seperation and deactivation of the space that is created through the existing fenced in park while providing equitable access to all future housing.
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LOUIS ARMSTRONG PARK REDEVELOPMENT
100'
SMALL EVENT
PROF. JOHN KLINGMAN | FALL 2017 | TYLER MYRICK
100'
100'
LARGE EVENT
A system of waterways runs through the site and drains at the last square which is partially a cypress pond. Congo square could be re-paved in the same pattern but permeable and piped to drain into the first water way. The middle square is half skate park and half water park with the skate park lower than the water park. The skate park offers functioning retention tanks in the form of pools and ditches to hold water and eventually pump it back into the back water way and then eventually into the cypress pond or instead into a filtration system after rainfall to be used for play once the son comes out. 45”
CURRENT EDGE
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PROPOSED CHANGE
15” 25”
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PROF. JOHN KLINGMAN | FALL 2017 | TYLER MYRICK
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The building on rampart is commercial on the first floor and is a part of the internal commercial corridor at the front of the site. On the second floor there are offices and on the above floors housing. The building creates a relationship with the water on the site by allowing it to pass through its breeze way and abutting the water way on the edge of the site as well as the bioswale in the front which feeds into the that waterway. The building has a vegetation screen made up of planters at each floor and garden panels made of PVC panel wrapped in polyamide felt and fed by nutrient solution through piping. The screen is irrigated by water collected on the blue roof beneath a raised permeable floor, which drians to the roofs edge where it is pumped to planters and panels.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG PARK REDEVELOPMENT
PROF. JOHN KLINGMAN | FALL 2017 | TYLER MYRICK
The rampart building brings people into the site while building an edge that will help rampart grow as a corridor of commerce conjoining Treme and the quarter. The facade however is interupted enough, and so as to allow views to all internal squares, that it does not behave too much as a monolith, threat or a barrier. The interruptions of the street grid are spacious enough to encourage public access to the stores on the street level and possibly even to public restaurants, bars, and pools on the roof level.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG PARK REDEVELOPMENT
Orleans Street Connection: Jackson Square & Congo Square
Site Axon
Driving Streets:
Dumaine & Treme Street
PROF. JOHN KLINGMAN | FALL 2017 | ALEX WALKER
Walking Streets:
St. Ann & Henriette Street
Armstrong Park, which was constructed in the s after the controversial destruction of acres of the historic Trem fabric, is an underutilized and borderline inaccessible space designed by Robin Riley. The design intended to serve as a historical jazz park, but many elements of the park have become the subject of critique throughout the years. Specifically, the large fence, which isolates the park from the surrounding neighborhood, and the immense concrete parking lots, which are attributed to increased flooding in the area, have had residents of the adjacent Trem and French Quarter neighborhoods in an uproar. Historically, the site of the park, and previously the fabric of Trem , was a lush natural swamp teaming with cypress trees that stored and filtered runoff water from the surrounding area. But, when the swamp was drained in the early th century to provide more housing for the increasing population of New rleans, the immense amount of runoff water had no where to go and the city was forced to pumped it out. This new crisis not only cause increased flooding but also deprived the water of the natural filtration methods. The intent of the project was to return these vital components back into the neighborhood by providing floodable spaces for storm water runoff with both new and old methods of filtration and circulation of the accumulating water. The intervention features a commercial corridor along N. Rampart Street, a museum abutted to Congo Square, and residential buildings that step down in scale in an effort to blend the proposed residential fabric with the old. The historic street grid has been returned, with designated streets for walking and driving, along with canals within the site that serve to store, filter, and display the storm water runoff.
Site Diagram: Driving Streets
Site Plan
Site Diagram: Walking Streets
LOUIS ARMSTRONG PARK REDEVELOPMENT
PROF. JOHN KLINGMAN | FALL 2017 | ALEX WALKER
The organization of the Rampart Street mixed-use buildings responds to the central fountain of Congo square, by creating a back alley along its axis, while also providing systematic breaks between the buildings to provide views and walkways into the site. The water features within this area are formal, and create public, yet intimate, floodable spaces that are not seen in other parts of the site. Water is stored and channeled down the rear face of the Rampart street buildings to cool its surface and create the sound of trickling water along the back alley this is supplemented with a floodable stepped seating area featuring a highly organized grove of trees.
Rampart Street Building Plan:
1st Floor
A large processional walkway along Henriette Street acts as a buffer between the public commercial aspects of the site and the private housing aspects. This walkway features long narrow pools where existing site statues are to be relocated, which are supplemented by the dense canopy created by the proposed alley of Live aks. Rampart Street Building Plan:
2nd Floor
Rampart Street Building Elevation: Front
Rampart Street Building Plan: Rampart Street Building Elevation: Left
Rampart Street Building Elevation: Back
Rampart Street Building Site Plan
Rampart Street Building Elevation:
3rd Floor
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Rampart Street Building Plan:
4th Floor
LOUIS ARMSTRONG PARK REDEVELOPMENT
PROF. JOHN KLINGMAN | FALL 2017 | ALEX WALKER
The water within the site moves from the front of the site towards the rear through a series of stepped canals. These areas allow for extensive flooding, and, in times of low water, provide green areas for visitors and residents of the site. These canals are accessed through a series of wooden boardwalks that move throughout the site and create valuable interactions with the water for. tilizing both hard and soft boarders with the water allows for plant growth, which is integral for water filtration, and provides animals with the ability to interact with the water.
Water Plan: Low Water
Water Section: Low Water
Water Plan: Medium Water
Water Section: Medium Water
Water Plan: High Water
Water Section: High Water
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North Rampart Street Building from outside of Congo Square
North Rampart Street Building along St. Phillip Street
Boardwalk facing back of Rampart buildings
PROF. JOHN KLINGMAN | FALL 2017 | ALEX WALKER