Design Portfolio_Chelsea M Lee |
Kindergarten + Community Center
Gert Town, New Orleans, Louisiana Spring 2010 _ Thesis Studio After Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans became a city of fragments. The pieces were repaired house by house leaving holes where there used to be communities. Children were sent to the only schools which were open, often more than an hour by bus. This project aims to heal a void, to provide a community center and a sense of group ownership within a community still striving to rebuild more than four years after the storm. It is a location for children to play safely in an artificial landscape of unpolluted gardens and hills. |