River of trees: A floating ecotourism camp in the Atchafalaya basin

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dc.contributor.advisorPope, Albert
dc.creatorMandell, Julia
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-03T18:31:30Z
dc.date.available2018-12-03T18:31:30Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractThe project envisions a houseboat ecotourism community in the Atchafalaya River Swamp of southern Louisiana. A million uninhabited acres, the Atchafalaya is the main floodway for the Mississippi River, receiving overflow from its massive watershed. Thus the swamp is a constantly changing floodscape of rising and falling waters. The thesis deals with the specifics of the swamp's water/landscape, but it is an imagining in a larger context: how do we design for erratic water conditions? And how can designing for such conditions allow us to envision more mutable modes of design? The design installs a system of fixed piers that act on the water flow, slowing the current to facilitate ecological processes. The piers act as a datum, registering the changing water levels against their unchanging structure. At the same time, floating barges move amongst the piers as the water rises and falls, reorganizing the camp seasonally across the site.
dc.digitization.specificationsThesis was rescanned at 24-bit color in 2020. PDF has been OCR’d and made accessible.
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dc.format.extent70 pp
dc.identifier.callnoTHESIS ARCH. 2008 MANDELL
dc.identifier.citationMandell, Julia. "River of trees: A floating ecotourism camp in the Atchafalaya basin." (2008) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/103572">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/103572</a>.
dc.identifier.digitalRICE2657
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/103572
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.subjectArchitecture
dc.subjectCommunication and the arts
dc.subjectLouisiana
dc.titleRiver of trees: A floating ecotourism camp in the Atchafalaya basin
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thesis.degree.departmentArchitecture
thesis.degree.disciplineArchitecture
thesis.degree.grantorRice University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Architecture
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