UL Lafayette: CDW: I-49 Connector: Neighborhoods

				I-49 Connector: Housing and Understanding Neighborhoods


				BACK \| NEXT TOPICS introduction public process case studies alignments garden urbanism alt. street links public realm neighborhoods lighting sound study public art conclusion recognition SUB-TOPICS introduction current trends relocation moving homes prototypes transitional micro-sizing implementation	Current Trends

					A current trend in residential planning is a return to the design, scale, and characteristics of traditional houses and neighborhoods at the turn of the century. Much of the existing project area is characterized by tree-lined streets, porches, and an architectural vocabulary that is being rediscovered by the neo-traditional and new urbanism movements in design and planning. The houses typically present a well-proportioned front, one that responds to the scale of an individual. This housing type emphasizes a vertical orientation rather than the horizontal orientation found in later ranch style houses. Vertical orientation lends itself to having the houses relate to each other, rather than standing as isolated objects. These houses also follow the design patterns of vernacular houses of the area. Houses raised on piers, wood construction, and lap siding all emphasize and express the skill of the carpenters who constructed the houses. It is the consistency of this vernacular vocabulary that builds an overall coherency that ties the neighborhoods together.





























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