WEEK TWO: SITE + ENERGY

This week we will be focusing on strategically grafting your internal spatial concept for the quarantine unit to the site.  The site is the territory surrounding the Erato Street Cruise Terminal at the Port of New Orleans.  This is not a specific building footprint but rather a territory for you to investigate and determine where and how to situate a quarantine unit.

Up until this point our concern with quarantine has fundamentally been aimed at questions of epidemic control, but at its most basic form, quarantine is a strategy of separation and containment.   These strategies of containment and quarantine also have roots in urban planning, geopolitics, international trade, ethics, immigration, and more.  Thus, as you now begin to position your project within the City of New Orleans work to broaden your definition of quarantine and start to investigate how elements of quarantine, separation, and isolation are also working within the site.  

03.01.10 > SITE VISIT > A QUARANTINE SURVEY

Use this site visit to document the basic elements of the site through photos, sketches, notes and diagrams.  In addition to taking a general survey of the site, create a quarantine survey of the site.  This means document how the site presents spatial separation through conditions like clean and dirty, safe and dangerous, foreign and native, etc.