Gutter To Gulf Internal

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

Riverfront/Jackson Square work

The final panel produced by the Jackson Square group (Sofia Balters, Nadia D'Agnone and Laura Baltodano) looking at access points and barrier conditions between river and city along the French Quarter.

Riverfront proposal currently underway: http://www.neworiverfront.com/

Stubborn Resilience

1.29.09

A frustrated street performer outside Cafe du Monde speaks for himself and, subconsciously, for the city, expressing a stubborn resilience that is simultaneously the best hope for and greatest threat to the future of NOLA:

"You can't ignore me away. I'm not going anywhere."