Heavenly Abode - Yanko Design

Rebuilding New Orleans is an ongoing effort and pitching into the concept-zone is the New Orleans Arcology Habitat or NOAH. Since the details on this construction are in-depth and enough, lets plunge into them right abroad. NOAH proposes to be a habitat for forty,000 residents who can benefit from the planned residential units, school organisation, commercial, retail, hotels, casinos, parking, and public works facilities.

NOAH is based upon the following preliminary program outline.

1. Residential Units / Rental and Condominium; 20,000 units @ average 1100 Sq ft
two. Three Hotels; Average 200 rooms plus associated services
3. Fourth dimension Share Units; 1500 units @ average 1100 sq ft
4. Iii Casino Facilities
5. Commercial Infinite / Rental and Condominiums; 500,000 sq ft
6. Commercial Space / Retail; 500,000 sq ft
seven. Parking Garage / within foundation; eight,000 cars
viii. Cultural Facilities; 100,000 sq ft
9. Public Works; 50,000 sq ft / includes storage
ten. District School Arrangement; 100,000 sq ft
11. District Administrative Office; fifty,000 sq ft
12. District Health Care Facility; 20,000 sq ft

Estimated Total Square Footage : 30 million

Location/ Site Specific:

In reviewing all the options and possible sites for NOAH, the well-nigh logical location is on the Mississippi riverfront and adjacent to the Central Business District.

Design Challenge:

i. The starting time challenge is to overcome both the physical and psychological amercement of recurring astringent weather condition patterns. Though re-population has begun, the demand to provide a stabilized and safe environment is paramount to a long term recovery and economic well being of New Orleans.
two. The 2nd challenge is that New Orleans has too much water. The city has been built at and below bounding main levels which creates consistently high water table and makes it prone to flooding and tempest surges.
3. The tertiary challenge is that New Orleans is built on soil condition which consists of thousands of feet of soft soil, silt and dirt. These atmospheric condition brand building large scale concentrated structures difficult.
Believing that NOAH is a feasible plan, our solution to overcome these challenges is to take advantage of these seemingly conflicting issues with the introduction of a floating urban platform.

Foundation Design / Basin

The NOAH foundation system is twofold. The first office of the organisation is to create a water filled "basin" within which the urban platform (NOAH) will float.

The second office of the system is to create a multi-crenel "hull" which volition exist the bodily foundation for the superstructure.

Bowl/Foundation:

The h2o basin will be a combination of etching into the existing land and extending out into the Mississippi River.
This human being fabricated basin is estimated to be i,200 feet in diameter with a depth of 250 anxiety.
The walls and floor of the basin would be constructed of high strength physical with practical lateral bracing and exterior fastened tension rings.
Backup intact valves will allow basin and river water levels to remain constant.

The Foundation:

Noah, at its current peak of 1,200 feet will rest up its triangulated foundation constituted
to be a buoyant multi-crenel "hull." This "hull" will consist of high strength concrete cells, forming approximately a xl×40 matrix. This matrix non just gives buoyancy to the structure, information technology also becomes the framing matrix for the steel framed superstructure. It is estimated that the combined weight of NOAH will typhoon 180 feet within the water-filled basin, allowing a minimum 50 foot space between the floor of the bowl and the floor of the buoyant foundation.

The hull volition take all land connectors as flexible conveyors to take into account whatever movement.
A triangulate shape has been chosen as the basis for NOAH. For two reasons:

First, the triangle is inherently the most rigid of all structural framing systems. The system is designed to dissipate gravity and severe air current loads through an all-steel practical (eko skeleton) outside frame and conventional internal framing methodology.

2nd, the triangle is an "open up" frame configuration, dividing NOAH into three separate "towers" converging at the tiptop. The intent of this open arrangement is to let all severe weather /winds to in effect "blow through" the structure in any direction with the minimum of massing interference.

Some other Features:

1. Heaven Gardens will be inserted into the three primary towers every 30 floors. These sky gardens provide landscaped glass enclosed atria.
two. Vertical commuting within NOAH volition be supported by a series of local and express custom canted elevators.
iii. NOAH is geared to an all pedestrian environment. Accordingly, only select horizontally based areas will be fitted with moving walkways and/or electrical railroad train carriers.
NOAH is a three stage master plan with a proposed 10 year build out. This fourth dimension frame tin be reduced to an estimated half dozen years should demand accelerate.

Eco-Highlights:
The structure is designed to aggrandize the horizon of sustainability and will seek LEED certification.
Information technology will eliminate the need for cars within the urban structure, and thus becomes a carbon neutral entity. Internal electric transport links, vertical and horizontal, create a pedestrian-friendly community,
Some of these elements are secured current of air turbines, fresh water recovery and storage systems, passive glazing system, heaven garden heating/cooling vents, grayness water treatment, solar assortment banding panels, and river based water turbines.

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