CHOUDRANT: LINEAR PARK PROGRAMS

Within this area we also included the Farmer’s Market and The Tinkery. While the Farmer’s Market serves as a place for fresh produce, residents are also welcome there to learn to create their own produce. Since a key consideration of this project was the sense of community, we also celebrated the existing linear park by extending it along the north-south axis.

MedCamps is a non-profit organization that provides free summer camps to children with chronic disabilities. As part of the Louisiana Tech architecture program, our class had the honor to be a part of the Design Build studio, a non-traditional class setting in which we were able to design for a client within a budget and construct our design to life. This gave us the opportunity to not only have a taste of practical experience with clients, but, more importantly, a chance for our relationships among our class to bond and really learn to become a team. To put it simply, the class of 2021 was challenged to design the entrance of Camp Alabama, but our vision was to design a moment in time for these children who are eager for the one week of the summer they get to be unapologetically themselves. Continuing on the MedCamps’ 20-year vision from class of 2020’s design, our responsibility was the first step into Camp Alabama. We were responsible for the first impressions of those eager children and their families.