Post-Katrina NOLA, Episode III: "Recipe": Wash. U. and M.I.T. advance to Phase 2 of Chase Competition

Friday, March 7, 2008

Wash. U. and M.I.T. advance to Phase 2 of Chase Competition

Our studio has teamed up with students and faculty advisor Karl Seidman at Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the JPMorgan Chase Community Development Competition. We will be submitting the Franz Building project on behalf of our New Orleans' nonprofit partner, the Good Work Network. After submitting the initial project abstract proposal, our team was selected as one of nine finalists to continue forward, with an awarded stipend. The deadline is April 18 for final written proposal, and if selected for the final six, the oral presentations will be held in New Orleans on May 6.

"The JPMorgan Chase Community Development Competition gives a team of students an orrortunity to partner with a New Orleans nonprofit organization to develop a real estate project that is feasible, sustainable, and helps to build and strengthen the local community."

Congrats on advancing to the next round!

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"RECIPE" was the third episode of ongoing Post-Katrina New Orleans studios led by Architect Derek Hoeferlin at Washington University in St. Louis. The first challenge was to explore the possibilities of a chicken coop. This was a design/ build project that required the production of the coop in St. Louis and transportation to and assembled. Our client for the coop was God's Vineyard Community Garden in the Lower Garden District neighborhood. The chicken coop at present is fully functioning and resilient. The second project was an adaptive re-use design for the historic Franz Building on Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard in the Central City neighborhood. The client for the Franz Building was the Good Work Network, a small business development corporation that purchased the structure. For the latter project, Washington University students collaborated with Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Urban Studies students to develop a correlating business development plan for the adaptive re-use design. It placed first in the 2008 JP Morgan Chase Community Development Competition. The $25,000 award acted as seed money for the non-profit. The joint work completed by WUSTL/MIT has helped the Good Work Network raise over $500,000 to implement the project. Work on both of these projects would not have been possible without the assistance of the CITYbuild Consortium of Schools, hosted by Tulane School of Architecture.