在一个价值5000万美元的项目中,建设正在进行中,该项目将在新奥尔良欧内斯特N. Morial Convertion Center前面将交通车道和人行道转换为7.5英亩的线性公园。但是为了做出这项工作,项目团队必须遵循详细的计划,以解决对交通模式,现有公用事业和排水的担忧。

该公园将设有步行道和自行车道,以及户外活动空间和聚会区。Eskew+Dumez+Ripple的高级合伙人项目经理Amanda Rivera说:“这几乎就像会议中心的前廊。”

Landis Construction Co. LLC是首席承包商,合资企业的Manning Architects/Eskew+Dumez+Ripple设计了该项目。工作始于9月。

设计团队的任务是创建一个公园,该公园将涵盖整个会议中心林荫大道的长度,但也将繁忙的通道从四个交通车道缩小到两条,而在某些地区,只有一个。计划还呼吁设计通过合并雨水管理功能来缓解城市排水问题。

里维拉说:“该项目的重大结果将是交通的重组以及会议中心前面的一切如何组织。”

广泛的交通研究执行项目set concluded that the park would need a dedicated space for cabs, shuttles, buses and ride-share vehicles. In the existing design, these vehicles occupy a traffic lane that spans the entire length of the Convention Center. The new park design calls for a centralized transit hub beneath the nearby Crescent City Connection Bridge. “All of that needs to happen for this ‘road diet’ to work,” Rivera says.

Because Convention Center Boulevard is a major downtown artery, one of the construction challenges has been to maintain access for motorists so they can still use the roadway while work is underway. The project team also has had to carefully coordinate with regulatory agencies such as the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board and Entergy to work around existing utilities, both underground and above grade. “We really can’t disturb those. And we’re adding additional utilities with this park,” Rivera says.

Because of overhead power lines, the project team has been working with Entergy so the park can include a canopy for pedestrians walking to the transit center to the convention center.

里维拉说:“我们处于紧密的三明治中,以避免高压电源线所需的偏移,并使它仍然超过14英尺高的卡车行驶的交通需求。”

排水是新奥尔良的普遍关注点,因此该项目的景观建筑师Spackman Mossop和Michaels融合了雨水管理功能,以解决该问题。该公园将采用地下Silva细胞系统,该系统由一个模块化的路面框架组成,该框架可以吸收和自然处理雨水,然后将水重新分配到周围的树木中。该系统还为树木的根结构创造了足够的呼吸空间。

线性公园是该市重塑新月总体规划的最新作品,该计划将为新奥尔良河滨带来6英里的线性公园。该公园也是会议中心的五年,5.57亿美元的扩建中的第一块。该计划于5月获得了欧内斯特·莫里亚斯(Ernest N. Morial)新奥尔良展览馆管理局(Ernest N. Morials)的批准,其中包括升级到34年历史的会议中心和拟议的高层酒店,并带有一座行人桥,可连接到马路对面的设施。

The pedestrian park is slated for completion by spring 2020.