Academic Samples | Tulane School of Architecture
Affordable Housing Studio
The site, located along an up-and-coming commercial corridor in Central City, New Orleans, was originally zoned to be four shotgun style lots. The design uses historical typologies of the site, street, and city to facilitate a reimagination of traditional affordable housing typologies. The 16 units bring scale back down to home through generous living and outdoor spaces that foster a sense of family, community, and ownership.
Special Collections Library
The site, located at a nexus of residential and academic conditions, serves as the gateway into an informal campus entrance. The special collections--The Hogan Jazz Archive, The Southeastern Architectural Archive, The Tulane University Archive, and the Louisiana Research Center--require over 20,000 sq. ft. of archival stacks. Other programmatic needs include viewing rooms, classrooms, an auditorium, and covered outdoor space.
Through a series of massing iterations, a building with three distinct volumes emerged--a private mass and a public mass, shifting along either side of a circulation corridor.
