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A Collaborative Design/Build Project in New Orleans' Seventh Ward


Vision

The Vision of the 7th Ward Building Arts Gallery is to become a ray of hope and to assist New Orleans residents in the re-building of their neighborhoods and the resurrection of their city. One of the greatest impediments to returning and re-building is a the lack of information, skills, and tools needed to repair damaged homes. The Building Arts Gallery can be a meeting place and a resource center providing information about planning, funding, and carrying out the repairs necessary for residents to return to their homes.

 

Besides providing reliable information, the Gallery can host classes on building techniques, and provide a tool lending library. The goal is to inspire and empower residents to re-build their own homes to the greatest extent possible. With the tools, skills and knowledge available thanks to the Building Arts Gallery, the regeneration of New Orleans' neighborhoods can begin -one house, one street and one block at a time.

 

The initial proposal for the Gallery is to consist of a space for information sharing and question answering, a repository for tools and material samples, and a large, covered outdoor work-yard for classes, demonstrations and meetings. The structures should be simple, sturdy and handsome enough to inspire pride and generate hope. Ideally, the Gallery can be completely self-sustaining in terms of its use of energy and natural resources. Constructed of pre-manufactured components, it will also be flexible enough to be extended and adapted by its users in order to accommodate new or changing neighborhood needs.

 

Working with members of the 7th ward community, we propose a collaborative design process that will lead to the construction of building components in Kansas. Once complete, these building elements will be transported to New Orleans and assembled into the framework for the Gallery by a collective of residents working together with students from Kansas and local universities. Our inspiration is the Creole tradition of craftsmen coming together on weekends to host 'house-raisings' for one another.


Key Participants


Articles about the 7th Ward and the rebuilding of New Orleans:

NEW ORLEANS GENERAL

SEVENTH WARD


Potential Funders


Model Programs to Learn From

TOOL LENDING LIBRARY

WELL HOME PROGRAM

REUSABLE BUILDING MATERIALS EXCHANGE PROGRAM

PRESERVATION RESOURCES


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