Disconnection Day Visitors Night Visitors Empty Nesters Ecology Center Educational

Doctors Cinema Tourists Young Families Healthy Events Community Health

Farmers Market Musicians Distillery Young Professionals Live Work Connection

Financial Summary Current Site Value: Projected Build Out:$16,631,900 $225,289,639

quartier vert:quartier vert: HEAL | LIVE | PLAY

5 Minute Walk

Residential

Entertainment

Retail

Mixed Use

Public Space

Lodging

Phase 1: create activity

DiagramsStategies

Connections | population access

Phase 2: gather on le bloc Phase 3: Welcoming Party Phase 4: Urban Connection Project Anaylsis

Land and Future Land Use

Tonya - Pediatrician, LSU Hospital

Brenda - Graduate Student, Visitor

Darryl - Community Activist, Lafitte

After a day of work at the Volunteers

of America Duverney Residence, Darryl

tends to a community garden plot south

of the greenway, two blocks from his home.

When done, he bikes to the the Lafitte

Greenway Urban Ecology Center to study sustainable urban food systems. On

Saturdays he sells his produce at the community farmer’s market under the freeway.

After appointments with patients both at the hospital and clinic, Tonya walks to Teef’s BBQ to meet her husband and two children for dinner before they cross Claiborne to attend Freeway Fridays. Hosted by the Treme, Tulane/Gravier and Lafitte neighborhood organizations, Freeway Fridays partners with Le Bloc Cinema to offer free movies under the freeway on Fridays during the fall.

-HEAL-

-LIVE-

While visiting her family in Treme for the weekend, Brenda decides to take a tour of the St. Louis Cemetery. After leaving the cemetery, she notices a memorial under the I-10 overpass and follows the path to a local art walk that honors the history of the neighborhood and influences her to rent a bike share bicycle and tour the neighborhood.

-PLAY-

= 1,800+ Medical Employees on adjacent campus

= 20,000+ RESIDENTS(within 1 mile radius of site)

= 9 Million+ Visitors to New Orleans Annually

Utilizing neighborhood-focused development to revive a culturally-rich neighborhood

and home

Restoring a neighborhood center to connect the diverse and proud communities

that activate it each day

Capitalizing on locational advantages to activate a neighborhood and a key

connection piece in New Orleans

Bio - Diversity

Water Control

Connection

Walkability

Transportation

Notes Saints Go Marching Inn

Le Bloc Cinema

Le Backyard Bloc

Gulf Coast Distillary

The Underline

Hostel International

Volunteers of America

-Duverney Residence-

Lafitte Greenway

Community gardens

Colectivo Cafe

Maxie’s Southern Comfort

Apartments on the Greenway

Urban Ecology Center

Teef’s Backyard BBQ patio

“The Underline” Concert Series

“The Underline” Farmers

Market

Colectivo Cafe Patio

Flood Zone Section

Sectional Diagram

Total Buildout: 544,485 SQ.FT.Residential: 46,800 (32 Units) Office: 17,200 Entertainment: 31,060Retail: 26,500Dining: 3,500Parking: 47,400Public Space: 197,400Misc. 16,385Lodging: 158,240 (110 Units)

Total Buildout: 122,800 SQ.FT.Residential: 75,600 (20 Units)Office: 39,000Entertainment: 8,200

Total Buildout: 1,396,872 SQ.FT.Residential: 465,710 (360 Units)Office: 97,885Entertainment: 39,260Retail: 36,150Dining: 57,550Parking: 199,000Public Space: 286,717Lodging: 214,600 (150 Units)

Total Buildout: 247,350 SQ.FT.Residential: 236,700 (233 Units)Dining: 10,650

Total Buildout: 242,920 SQ.FT.Residential: 106,610 (75 Units)Office: 25,300Retail: 9,650Dining: 43,400Public Space: 1,600Lodging: 56,360 (40 Units)

Le Bloc CinemaThe UnderlineSaints Go Marchin InnDuverney Residences

Medical ClinicUrban Ecology CenterLive/Work Housing

VerandaColectivo CafeMaxie’s Southern Comfort FoodApartments on the Greenway

Le Backyard BlocGulf Coast DistilleryHostel International

Canal Streetcar

The Underline

Water Collection

Flood Mitigation

Flood zones

Pervious Surface

Prephase + Phase 1 + Phase 2 + Phase 3 + Phase 4 = Postphases

Rainwater is collected and irrigated to the Lafitte greenway

Le Bloc Mitigates flooding by channeling water to the Lafitte Greenway’s Bio-rention pond

Controlled flooding allows water to flood the greenway

Permeable sidewalks allow water to run off into the retention pond with a 240% increase in pervious surfaces on site

bioswale release pipeperforated pipe

connector pipes

stormwater cistern

solar panels

bio-retention pond

flood zone

terraced green space

terraced green space

normal water level

bioswale runoff

permeable sidewalk

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