A proposal for the Louisiana Neighborhood at Zuni in Albuquerque, NM.
2011 Architecture Design Studio
University of New Mexico
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The Zuni and Louisiana Blvd. neighborhood in Albuquerque, NM has a community and culture all its own. There have been markets, community resource centers, culturally unique retail, and a lot of unfortunate design failures. At the time of the proposal, the city was working on a re-branding of sorts. The proposal works with their identity crisis to develop a unique low-income housing scenario of 4 different typologies to meet different needs of housing. There is also a community based program offering space for the once familiar community markets and proprietary development for individuals who are typically unrecognized as business owners. The area has several low-income housing developments which have fallen into security failure, and territorial demand. This housing project offers each unit a reconfigurable facade, a variety of spatial layouts for tenants from studios to 3 bedroom dwellings.