GLC FOOD HUB

This is a work in progress that I am developing with a nonprofit design-build studio run by Tulane University called the Small Center. You can see more of the Small Center’s design-build projects here https://small.tulane.edu/

Site plan of Orehtha Castle Haley Blvd, showing parking lot, landscaping, playground, vegetable garden, compost area, seating areas, and building entrances, with surrounding streets Thalia St and Erato St.

We are partnered with a group of local food-focused non-profits called the Growing Local Collaborative. The GLC is made up of orgs that do everything from urban farming to farmers’ markets to food distribution in underprivileged neighborhoods in New Orleans. They brought us on to design a masterplan for their new urban farm and farmers market and to build a multi-purpose outdoor educational space. The blue callout is our zone of intervention for construction.

Top-down view of an outdoor area with a building, trees, benches, and paved walkways.

This plan shows our zone of intervention for construction with a water collection strategy, rain garden, flexible outdoor classroom/community gathering space, and wheelchair accessable planters.

A modern outdoor community space with a covered pavilion, seating areas, and smiling people socializing and enjoying the scenery.

This rendering shows the final proposed design-build project.

To see more process work, click below.