Make it Right - New Orleans

BNIM has been a part of the Make It Right project since it started in 2007 with the goal to build 150 green, affordable, high-quality homes in the neighborhood closest to the levee breach after Hurricane Katrina. In addition to developing a single-family and duplex home design for Make It Right, BNIM was asked to address a segment of the community-wide pilot street design within the area in a way that considers lighting, stormwater management, landscaping and creating community. A new approach to infrastructure design was greatly needed, so by bringing together innovative landscape architects from across the United States, a new approach to streetscape design evolved. Working with the Public Works Department, BNIM explored alternative streetscape strategies and employed alternate roadway alignments, pervious paving technologies, and living systems approaches in the final design approach.