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New Orleans' Inner Ring refers to where the city was originally founded, on the bank of the Mississippi River. This area has been slowly losing its vibrancy for the past 40 years thanks to the highway system and white flight. 

My thesis focused on the Claiborne Avenue Corridor, a vital thoroughfare that lost its character when the I-10 overpass was constructed. I proposed leveraging grassroots activities to create a series of districts that become attractors and re-establish a connection across the corridor.

The Lafitte Greenway presents an opportunity to create a small campus for the school. A campus that will span across the Claiborne Corridor to literally and figuratively stitch the two sides together, as well as become a landmark for those traveling on the Claiborne Corridor and the Greenway. 

I created campus that will span across the Claiborne Corridor to literally and figuratively stitch the two sides together, as well as become a landmark for those traveling on the Claiborne Corridor and the Greenway.

I attempt to stretch out the life happening underneath the Expressway by extending the colonnade of supports and using them as a module to create two long structures that focus the campus around an under-bridge plaza.

The entire campus will be capped with a tensile roof made of translucent ETFE foil. A Living Screen along the facades that front the Expressway provides noise dampening and creates a unique arrival experience for those traveling on the Expressway. 

I wanted the building to have the feeling of a pavilion in the park, a place to pause as one moves along the greenway.  It will reinforce the stitching theme and give a feeling of entrance from every direction.