Thesis Highlights

Contemporary Architecture in Historic Contexts

Contemporary Architecture in Historic Contexts interior render

Fall 2022. Open to undergraduate students only.

This Research Studio focuses on contemporary architectural interventions in historic contexts. For its third year, the studio will focus on the entirety of Magazine Street from the edge of the French Quarter up to Audubon Park. Students will study the historic fabric and the new developments and work on a number of new proposals learning how to be deliberate when making decisions as participants and actors in the evolution of the identity of a place.

The specificity of a place is something that is constant over time, whereas the identity of a place is something that gradually evolves over in time. It is important for architects to be aware and deliberate when making decisions of this distinction as participants and actors in the evolution of the identity of a place.

WORK

Contemporary Architecture in Historic Contexts isometric view
Contemporary Architecture in Historic Contexts clean brick and white stucco view
Contemporary Architecture in Historic Contexts Magazine St elevation
Contemporary Architecture in Historic Contexts St. Joe Street elevation view
Contemporary Architecture in Historic Contexts circulation diagram
Contemporary Architecture in Historic Contexts corner taxonomy
Contemporary Architecture in Historic Contexts corner section B
Contemporary Architecture in Historic Contexts corner section D
Contemporary Architecture in Historic Contexts scheme chosen buildings
Contemporary Architecture in Historic Contexts ground floor plan
Contemporary Architecture in Historic Contexts second floor plan
Contemporary Architecture in Historic Contexts third floor plan

FACULTY

Ammar Eloueini, Professor of Architecture & Director of Graduate Architecture