The New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center (MCCNO) houses over 1 million contiguous linear feet of event space for their customers, leaving endless possibilities only limited by the show designer’s imagination. Even with this impressive statistic, many convention-goers are drawn to events at MCCNO largely due to the culture, history and experiences New Orleans has to offer. With this in mind, NANO’s prime design directive takes a two-fold approach: modernize all meeting rooms, corridors, public gathering spaces, and pre-function spaces while incorporating the experience of New Orleans into the facility through art, lighting, texture, color, food, rhythm, movement, and visitor interactions.
The team utilizes patterns, typical urban archetypes, and the natural forces of the Mississippi River that historically determined the unique urban grid system into the design of the facility. Abstracting typical materiality, exclusive to New Orleans and cultural context, NANO produces a heterogenous design strategy for a holistic experience that emulates New Orleans without imitation.
In addition to assisting with modernizing all meeting rooms with much attention to detail in the MCCNO, I assisted with the design and drawings of custom escalator walls in the lobby of the MCCNO. Each of these escalator walls feature a different design and variety of undulating wooden waves, bringing dimension to the space.
Team Terri Dreyer, Ian Dreyer, Kristine Kobila, Samantha Johnson, Lance Dickman, Ivy Leleux, Kelsey Chappuis, Ana Chu, Maria Ory, Evie Bentch
renderings from NANO Architecture | Interiors
