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PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
The Mississippi coast community is rebuilding from Hurricane Katrina with more residents and businesses coming back everyday. It has been quite the struggle to get families back in safe and sustainable homes to rebuild their lives from, but homes are only a part of what makes a community. As families come back they also need the things that make them feel apart of a community. Neighborhood parks serve as vital gathering points for the community. They give families and neighbors a place to play, talk, and have family events and community meetings.

A group in Biloxi, Hands On Gulf Coast, has received a grant to rebuild neighborhood park shade structures destroyed in the 2005 hurricane. Rebuilding these shade structures is a small yet effective way to tell those coming back that the community is there with them. Architecture for Humanity Austin has secured the opportunity to design and build one of these park shade structures. Design will take place over a few weeks this summer ending with a week long construction trip in July 2008. Hands On has $1,200 for materials and all the additional construction volunteers needed. All that’s left is the help of designers to make these parks the hopeful spaces the community desperately needs.

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nicjoslin: The purpose of this page is

Mon, 2008-10-27 10:27

The purpose of this page is to aid in the design and development of a park project in Biloxi, MS by Architecture for Humanity Austin. If you are interested in this project feel free to contact me with any questions or comments, but please stop posting unrelated information on this site.

Sound Play Links | nicjoslin (2 replies)

Wed, 2008-07-30 14:54

http://soundplay.com/index.html
http://www.rhythmweb.com/homemade/
http://www.philtulga.com/HomemadeMusic.html
http://www.freenotes.net/Outdoor/outdoor.html
http://playgrounddesigns.blogspot.com/2008/03/playground-musical-instrum...
http://www.wicksteed.co.uk/playscape-music-c106.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdrNOB1dA28&NR=1
http://www.bmgconstruction101.com/construct.php
http://devices.natetrue.com/pvc/pvc.htm

jessadler: one more

Wed, 2008-10-08 19:35

Sonic Architecture has done some good soundplay projects.

http://www.sonicarchitecture.com/frm_htm.htm

thedaveymac: too late...

Thu, 2008-07-31 10:45

I was just about to post some links for this, but it looks like you beat me to it...

Zilker Park in Austin has some of the Soundplay instruments.

See ya tonight.

Davey McEathron

nicjoslin: I was just looking around

Thu, 2008-07-31 11:17

I was just looking around yesterday and found a few things. I went to Zilker yesterday and saw the soundplay instruments and looked at their website ... then a few of their links. Go ahead and post anything else you find! See you tonight!

Site info - IMPORTANT! | nicjoslin (1 reply)

Wed, 2008-07-16 15:21

I just got to Biloxi today and have talked a little with Jessie about our site. It turns out the city is already in the process of applying for state funding to fix the existing structures. GOOD NEWS IS we are still on this site and our funding will not be affected if we do not build an actual shade structure. We can proceed assuming the existing structure will be repaired by the city leaving us to focus on other elements of our design.

I say everyone should start focusing on elements for extending the site with seating/berms/landscaping.

TaylorB: Thanks, Nicole.

Thu, 2008-07-17 08:19

Thanks, Nicole.

Jersey Barriers | TaylorB

Tue, 2008-07-15 16:45

All,

I was in San Antonio this weekend and got an idea for our project. San Antonio is doing lots of road construction and has stacks and stacks of jersey barriers. I did a little research and found that jersey barriers were also used temporarily in south Louisiana for erosion control.

http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/01/highway_barriers_being_used_t...

While they're quite heavy (4,000 lbs for a 10' long section), they're also virtually indestructible, and potentially fairly cheap.

http://www.discountcrowdcontrol.com/concrete-traffic-barrier-bcjb10-U/

I'm sure a large portion of the expense would be getting them to the site and placing them, but I thought it might be worth making a few phone calls and doing some research. Nicole has offered to see what she can find out while she is in Mississippi. It would be nice to recycle some old jersey barriers that are no longer acceptable for highway use. I can see using them as a bench (or bench back), surface to apply tile to, a retaining wall, or all of the above.

Let me know your thoughts.

Location | nicjoslin

Tue, 2008-07-01 18:06

The park is Doris C Busch Park on 645 Esters Blvd., here is the park on the city website http://www.biloxi.ms.us/pr/Parks/Busch_Park.asp

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Project Details

NAME: Biloxi Busch Park
PROJECT LEAD: Architecture for Humanity Austin Chapter
LOCATION: Biloxi, Mississippi, United States
START DATE: June 17, 2008
COST: $1200 USD (Estimated)
SIZE: 120 sq. ft
BUILDING TYPE: Public Space/Gathering Space, Landscapes/Parks/Outdoor Spaces
PROJECT COORDINATOR: Nicole Joslin