I started my new job at GCCDS www.gccds.org just over a week. It's a great place to work with a whole new set of colleagues and challenges, all of which are great. I'm working on four projects at the moment:
1. A wetland landscape at a small non-profit medical center located in a public housing development. 2. A master plan that is re-establishing and integrating historic bayous and wetlands within East Biloxi, an area that lost 70% of it's housing during Hurricane Katrina. This is quite a challenge. Water runs in two directions here... everything is tidal. The bayous fill up during high tide and go back down at low tide each day. 3. A master plan for downtown Moss Point, MS. Most of this downtown was also flooded during Katrina. We are looking to move everything to higher ground and establish a public park system that connects downtown to the Escatawpa River.
4. Writing the Renaissance Development Guidelines, these are guidelines that fit within the framework of LEED but are more focused to the MS Gulf Coast. These will help regulate how housing developments are built.
Those things are keeping me quite busy but I do hope you can find time to come down and visit!
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Greetings from Biloxi
It is always warm even when it's cold. We have campfires, stews and tasty beer all chased with a round of laughter. Perfect nights as far as I'm concerned. The live oak trees have a pressence, one that seems to be greater than anything else at times, then the smell of salt cuts through the air. When you walk to the edge there are only variations of two colors in three elements: white and blue - sand, water and sky. Set within it all is a community that is quite a mixed-bag... it's fantastic, everything is unfamiliarly familiar. I've only scratched the surface and it's pretty thick so far.
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