Operation Gutter to Gulf

This Blog is a collaborative effort between Washington University in St. Louis and The University of Toronto to examine and develop an integrated water management plan and infrastructural strategies for the city and its surrounding region. The studio will examine water as a means to rehabilitate the urban landscape of New Orleans. Multiple scales of architecture, landscape, infrastructure and urbanism will be researched and designed as inextricable parts of the same whole, tracking and integrating water from the gutter to the gulf [of Mexico].









New Orleans Layered Systems site model generated from basemap provided courtesy of Waggonner & Ball Architects


Monday, February 9, 2009

17th Street Canal to Algiers Point

Map of the route John and I walked and documented.
Basemap courtesy Waggonner & Ball Architects
























Sketches showing typical sections through an exposed canal and its surroundings.




















How the canal interfaces with the infrastructure of the city.


















Close up of a major intersection of infrastructure (17th street canal, underground canals, I-10, the railroad, pumping station 6 and the I-10 pumping station)

























Aerial view of the drainage pipes and highway interacting with the canal.























Panorama showing the canal, drainage pipes, and highway.







Panorama showing the canal, pumping station 6, and the railroad.










Panorama showing the canal-levee condition and an open corridor from a residential street to the canal.







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