Lovely, slightly whimsical report from Inhabitat about an idea to rebuild New Orleans. Amidst all the talk of rebuilding the city people have only obliquely acknowledged the fact that New Orleans sits in a bowl and is almost inevitably going to get hit again. And again. And again.
Sometimes it takes an outsider with a fresh pair of eyes to realize the obvious. In this case, it was the syncronicity between a New Orleans schoolgirl named Courtney S. and Dutch architectural firm MVRDV which led to a great idea for rebuilding New Orleans: build hills! The idea is so simple, so sensible, so obvious, and yet strangely no-one had seriously proposed it. Until now…. Dutch architecture firm MVRDV explains:
“We came across a drawing of one schoolkid. She drew this hill with people walking up to the top in the rain. It had something religious as well as sentimental to it, but the simpleness was highly appealing. Perhaps we should realize her dream.. A school that can serve as a public hill, from where everyone can look over the neighborhood, the city, the landscape. A clear haven. Where children play. With benches and swings in the trees…”
I rather like this.
But they’d have to build a lot of hills.
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