contextualizing

film text

"I can feel the outside, but I can't feel the inside, OK?"

"... I'm dying.
I'm going to die.
I'm going to die.
I'm going to die.
I'm dead, do you understand?"

"i'm dead, do you understand?"

sun study

existing light conditions will inform new interior spaces

existing memorials (nola)

this is pretty much my thesis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7IbbvBWJtc

memorial for the unclaimed dead

sort of a building

dead to live

view from graveyard to housing projects

historical iberville layers

projects; new condos; old city hall; CBD

site strategy

crisis matrix

FILL doesn't give back

MOVE

Revitalization of the French Quarter:

1 - Move current inhabitants to make room for new/re-development
2 - Scale of spatial importance: blacks < low-mid income whites < rich whites < tourists
3 - Sex clubs allowed to stay in current desirable locations

race games

modern schemes for urban racial control.

flood :: insurance

expected flood damage zones determined in 1984 by FEMA versus actual flood levels in 2005

ERASE

Our law firm’s investigation has determined that FEMA deliberately ignored and tried to conceal the problems with toxic FEMA trailers. E-mails uncovered during a 2007 congressional investigation into the trailers showed that FEMA lawyers told the agency to drag its feet on air quality testing. FEMA’s Office of General Council also advised the agency not to test the trailers because doing so “would imply FEMA’s ownership of the issue”. One email from a FEMA lawyer advised, “Do not initiate any testing until we give the OK… Once you get the results…the clock is running on our duty to respond to them.” Another FEMA lawyer wrote in an email that investigations not approved by lawyers “could seriously undermine the Agency’s position.”

middle school bath

Upon renovation, the bathroom will no longer be to code.

4309 Jena Ave

Decode the national guard-speak.