Site
New Orleans, Lousiana/USA

Survey
07-08/2006; 07-08/2007

Study
2006-2008

Publication
10/2009

Study Area
181 HA, circa 70 City Blocks

Partner-in-Charge
Mark Gilbert (trans_city, TU Wien)
Byron Mouton (Tulane University, New Orleans)

Project Partner
Kristian Faschingeder, Verein ArchitekturRaum 5

Project Team
Janosch Boderke
Roberta Botti
Igor Brandic
Gerhard Dorninger
Kerstin Fian
Alexander Gabriel
Aramis Glück
Antonio Graziera
Jure Herceg
Wolfgang Kostner
Bernadette Pachler
Viktoria Rauter
Ylva Roswall
Julia Robl
Sonia Sghaier
Josef Schiessl
Dagnija Smilga
Markus Stroi
Christoph Zobel

Financing
BMUKK, BMWF, MA7 der Stadt Wien

Publication
After the Storm – a manifesto for a neighborhood in New Orleans,
Gilbert, K. Fachingeder Hrsg; Wien, Schleebrügge Editor, 2009

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.