The Green Project

The Green Project’s mission is to develop a culture of creative reuse by building a marketplace of reclaimed materials and cultivating respect for their value. The Green project warehouses salvaged material, provides workshops and creative programing, and serves as a resource to the New Orleans Community.

The Tulane City Center is helping the Green Project rethink how its space, organization, and entry can be better utilized in their half-acre lot on Press street. The proposed design offers classroom spaces to educate and provide information to the community on how to recycle and re-purpose various materials. Entertainment space is included in the building program for the purpose of larger community activities. Overall, the increase of program and customers call for a better designed, more open and more welcoming building complex.

This comprehensive reconsideration and redesign of the space reorganizes the building for greater efficiency with the maximum cost to quality of improvement. The proposal creates greater visibility between spaces on the ground floor, creating a more expressed and spacious entrance to the main floor space that connects with the Press Street entrance - convenient to the anticipated streetcar stop. The design takes an approach of opening up the warehouse building to create a more inviting space, while organizing and efficiently condensing storage for merchandise.

This proposal calls for the main customer entry to be relocated to the Press Street Railroad side of the building and a series of sculptural yet functional entry doors to be built to celebrate this community resource.

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