DSGN 3200 // SPRING 12
KATLYN LEACH NEW ORLEANS CULINARY ARTS COLLEGE Critic: Bruce Goodwin
ATCS4200_Spring 2012: Final Project The purpose of this New Orleans Culinary Institute project is to bring the New Orleans community to the area. OC Haley Boulevard is undergoing a revitalization to bring the street and surrounding area back to life or the way that it used to be. By creating a center that recognizes not only the need for culinary cultivation in New Orleans’ students, but in the New Orleans community as well the steps toward fixing the OC Haley Boulevard are a little closer to the goal. This project should attract students and community alike to learn about the culinary arts, to use indoor facilities and the garden. By displaying plants in planter boxes on the building’s facade, it acts as signage to what the structure is, invites people to enter, and helps the environment and climate of the building. Greenery adorns the facade to allow students immediate access to the goods that they need to cook. Operable windows allow for quick gardening of vegetables and greens that will be used in the culinary school. The plants also act as a mediator for the building environment by providing shade for diffused light to enter the building, and fresher air when the operable windows are open. The facade is a teaching tool for the students, and example for the community. KATLYN LEACH_5-3-2012
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The concrete planter boxes hang from a nonstructural column and beam system that attaches to the structural system on the interior of the building. Students can access the planter boxes through operable windows that move both up and down for easier reach. The second and third floors show teaching kitchens while the first is the restaurant.
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Several different types of plants that grow well in New Orleans can be planted in these beds. The beds are different depths to allow for many different types of herbs or vegetables to grow. They would not only be a teaching tool but promote cleaniless and clean air, and diffuse natural light that comes through the operable windows.
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