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cr: Wentao Guo
A communal housing that serves as a replacement for New Orleans, Louisiana’s major thoroughfare, the Claiborne expressway. It is known to be the most hated infrastructure that robbed the historic African American community. Biden signed the infrastructure bill in late 2021 after acknowledging the harm the freeway had done to the neighbourhood. However, I suggested utilising the expensive infrastructure, reconnecting and growing the community by building a communal housing on it as a way to unify the area after it had been so long apart. It is made up of sequence of rooms and spaces, a series of shot-gun houses lined up and pushed up against either side of the highway. To contrast the existing bulky concrete structure, a sawtooth roof was created and covered in repurposed galvanized steel folding roof, maintaining and preserving the ramp’s form.