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M.Arch Core Studio
Tulane University
Prof. Irene Keil
2022

A mass timber office building that makes use of local materials and prioritizes ground-floor public uses.


This comprehensive proposal for an office building on Poydras Street in downtown New Orleans is framed around three notions of linkage: 1) urban linkages, 2) visual linkages, and 3) environmental linkages. This four-story mass-timber building acts as a node that draws in the public realm, linking a busy plaza in front of the building with the quieter, more contemplative urban space in the rear. Through employing locally-produced and sustainable materials - from Southern Longleaf Pine in its structural system to Mississippi River clay in its ceramic facade - the building is deeply rooted in its particular landscape.


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Giuliana Vaccarino Gearty

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Giuliana is an architect and researcher of cultural landscapes. Her projects span across eras and oceans, from cooperative housing in Sweden to the reuse of tuna fisheries in Sicily. Giuliana’s research has received multiple awards, including the Robert A. M. Stern Travel Fellowship and the University of Chicago Feitler Prize. Her work has been published in the edited volume Tradition and Invention, Dezeen, and PLATFORM. She lives and works in New Orleans.