This thesis focuses on the social interaction of collective action that is producing places of architecture. On the discourse of rituals/labor, my thesis strives to maintain a specific identity that can manifest a network of social, physical, and capital connections. These connections are to carry across time, reflecting the memory of spaces while bring an agent to set up methods for changing context. Observing the spaces in between building and user has become a complex relationship where design is dictated by the architect of its intended user. I am interested in the spaces in between the built form and social interactions where places are significant. The strategy of collective ownership by the local people in a community allows for the pathos of healing from a tragedy or traumatic experience Driven by redlining and subjective capital from the “greater works” of New Orleans, the essence of social locality and ritual becomes one of the identities for the Lower Ninth Ward. Through these identities, the neighborhood manifests program of congregation and education. These program acts as a social use for residents to share ideas, educate, and reflect the memories of the neighborhood. The Make-it-Right village in the lower ninth serves as a case study for an urgent housing initiative that was unsuccessful. It failed the residents to reclaim their lost land from Hurricane Katrina in 2005. This site should become an area of understanding. Focusing on the congregation of people around this use for a sanctuary and participation. Rather my Thesis has potential for use of residents that look for a place to occupy as they work, reflect, or educate.
Status: School Project
Location: New Orleans, LA, US