UWM Thesis - Permeated Reparation: Lower Ninth Ward Transitional Housing

PREVIOUS L9 MASTERPLANS Proposed Master Plan (University of Pennsylvania) Another school that has submitted plans on how to rebuild is the University of Pennsylvania. One of their designs focuses on how to rebuild the Lower Ninth in a way that focuses on consolidating all resources and residences to islands of refuge. The socalled islands would merely be ground that has been raised.

L9 PERMEATED REPARATION

Through a series of lters based on past density, paths of travel and other factors, the project proposes grouping together pockets of buildings. A possible con guration of these raised areas in shown in the center, while an example of how the islands would be broken down by use is shown at the bottom right

UWM Thesis - Permeated Reparation: Lower Ninth Ward Transitional Housing

Published on Jan 30, 2011

Joseph Vraspir

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As a result of Hurricane Katrina over 1800 people lost their lives and the resulting migration was the largest in United States history surpassing even the Civil War. Over 1 million people left their homes. Permeated Reparation is an attempt to recapture and repair (reparation) the magnificent culture and atmosphere that defined the Lower Ninth and the rest of New Orleans. The goal of Permeated Reparation is to blend a variety of housing, commercial and public spaces meant to diffuse and spread (permeate) through the Lower Ninth. This includes “Volunteer Housing” for the hundreds of weekly volunteers that continue to travel to the Lower Ninth Ward and donate their time to rebuilding and secondly “Transitional Housing” for both new populations looking to move to the Lower Ninth and former residents attempting to move back to the area.

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