exhibition: 2006 Venice Biennale Italian Pavilion “Cities Architecture and Society”
Scholarship and design-based investigations situated at the architectural scale often slip toward the space of the room or the expanse of the site. Indeed some of the most often studied projects of recent years operate within this larger field of space making. This topic seeks to provide a home for work beyond the precise scale of the building.
When commissioned to speculate a design proposal for the rebuilding of New Orleans, LA we created NOkat. NOkat is a search for relevant building techniques in the ‘terra viscus’.
NOkat is an architectural project, an urban strategy, a water management system, an ecological re-intervention, and a cultural catalyst sited in the lower 9th ward of New Orleans, Louisiana that could be deployed across the watersheds of the Gulf Coast. It is a true investigation in an expanded field as it studies an entire habitation system and its relationship to a changing ecosystem.
