After the Storm – New Orleans, USA

After the storm

Tulane/ Gravier is a classic New Orleans neighborhood of shotgun houses and commercial buildings. Flooded but not catastrophically damaged by Katrina, it has become a political shuttlecock in the post-hurricane battles over the city’s future.

Drawing from operative experience in both the American and the European urban traditions, this development concept puts forward an integrated set of architectural interventions that will preserve the neighborhood and secure its economic future. Developed out of careful social, historical and spatial analyses of the district, as well as a conception of the city as a complex social ecology After the Storm combines urban sensitivity with bold architectural ideas and proposes strategies for collective programming that will enhance the sense of community within this historic but endangered urban neighborhood.

2006-2008: research and field work in New Orleans USA
2009: publication of After the Storm: a gentle manifesto for a neighbourhood in New Orleans (Schlebrügge.Editor, Vienna)

mark gilbert architektur with Kristian Faschingeder & the faculty of the TU Wien

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