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7th Ward Building Arts Gallery (working title for now)

A collaborative design/build project in New Orleans's 7th Ward.

Vision: The design and construction of a neighborhood resource center in the Seventh Ward in New Orleans. At this point, we are developing a strategy for development of a neighborhood center that focuses on information and education about the art and practice of building. We imagine a space that educates and informs, but also a space that practices building: a small building and a builder’s yard where people can get assistance with their own rebuilding projects. It could also be a place where vocational training could happen, to re-employ people. It would have lockable space to store tools, a sort of office space for staff and media, and a large, outdoor covered space.

 

At this moment, we envision designing and building a pre-fabricated set of building panels and components that get constructed by architecture students at the University of Kansas and shipped down and assembled in New Orleans. The emphasis would be on designing an intelligent construction system that could be deployed in a complete element/module/section of the center, but be extendable (by ourselves or others) in later semesters. This open-endedness is important as the use and programming of the center grows.

 

The Seventh Ward is considered by many to be the quintessential Creole neighborhood in New Orleans. It once had many skilled Creole craftsmen, and a vestige of that craft base still remains. Although not as prosperous as it once was, the neighborhood is identified with halls that each reflect a group of professionals, mechanics, skilled laborers or a benevolent society. There is also a heritage of “house-raisings” where craftsmen join together to build and finish each others’ homes in the neighborhood. Our vision would be that our pre-fab components be assembled into a finished building in New Orleans in a similar, collaborative fashion. So the idea of a center for the building arts seems to fit into that historical context: the “Seventh Ward Building Arts Gallery.”


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