Students:

Valerie Cantrell
Brian Cay
Christine Goodwin
Kelly Gregory
Mickey Htoo
Lindsay Kenkel
Patrick Knobloch
Callie Knoll
Bob Korte
Laura Lafoe
Suzanne Petersen
Jon Redcorn
Amy Scilligo
Maryna Silchenko
Kenny Simmons
Chris Wahl
April Young

Seventh Ward Tool Shed • New Orleans

The toolshed was designed, fabricated and installed in the Seventh Ward Community Garden by professor Nils Gore’s Arch401 Studio in May, 2006.

The toolshed is a pre-fabricated, panelized structure that will hold gardening tools in the community garden. It is made of steel frames that hold painted plywood panels. The frames are attached to each other with bolts, and the roof rafters are bolted on to the ridge beam. Wood purlins carry corrugated steel roofing panels.

To make connections to the African roots of Creole architecture, we incorporated digitally incised patterns derived from African textile patterns on the wall panels.

Client: The Porch Cultural Organization.

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