Design Studio Course

• The Baker Canal Corridor Project

  The Baker Canal Corridor Project will create a culturally sensitive collaborative that brings environmental projects, entrepreneurship, research and education to communities in a manner that encourages a comprehensive understanding and...
  Research
• Morgan City 50/50/2050

  Students were required to propose a bold future for Morgan City, designing building and site systems to facilitate exchange within a proposed degree of fortification or fluctuation.
  Capacity Building
• Fabricating the Delta

  Fabricating the Delta introduced digital fabrication as an act of making, analyzing, and positioning design in relation to coastal restoration. The final product was a full-scale kiosk that presents the...
  Capacity Building
• Wax Lake Delta NERR Research Facility Design Studio

  In the NERR Research Facility Studio, the students addressed the challenges of building within a deltaic condition. The emerging ecosystem, lying between blurred lines of land and water, provides a...
  Capacity Building
• Advanced Research in Coastal Ecological Design

  Complementing the overarching theme, the course was composed of two major components addressing specific research agendas within the CSS: 1) the development of content for the Expanded Small Scale Physical...
  Capacity Building
• UNSEEN: Interpreting Constructed Ecologies

  The intent of the studio was to research regional planning, coastal ecology, ecological restoration, large-scale water management and infrastructure, and the complex relationships formed between settlement and ecology over time....
  Capacity Building
• Disturbed Systems

  The design projects chosen by student teams defined and then critically evaluated the variety of ecological and man-made systems at work in varying scales on the site. The students addressed...
  Capacity Building
• Methods for Leeville

  The goal was to understand an architectural documentation and design process for investigating at-risk towns in the Gulf South, using Leeville as a case study.
  Capacity Building
• LSU/Chevron: the Reimagined Shorebase

  The goal of this design investigation is to discover ways for Chevron, its employees, and the environment to successfully and sustainably co-exist in the productive and ever-changing Louisiana environment. The...
  Capacity Building
• Grand Isle Studio

  Attempting to confront the very particular challenges of design in a transforming Louisiana landscape, the Grand Isle Studio – an architecture course at LSU – addresses the challenge of architectural...
  Capacity Building