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Project Type: Urban Design
Location: Arts District, Los Angeles, California
School: University of Southern California
Professor: Peter Zellner
Semester: Fall 2016
This studio proposes a series of new architectural interventions across the Los Angeles Arts District, Skid Row, the Los Angeles River and West Boyle Heights. The aim of the studio is to investigate an architecture that hovers between new and old, ground and sky, while proposing an alternative model for densifying Los Angeles. These interventions are intended to highlight and frame the texture of Los Angeles’ historic fabric without adding density on the ground. The studio critiques Los Angeles’ housing crisis by providing a new form of Los Angeles urbanism: a City on the City. Specifically, this is a newly elevated urban sky-plane developed as a contemporary model for re-inhabiting the city, flying over and through a modified and reconfigured industrial landscape. Illustrated in a series of comic strip graphics, the new urban design strategy is revealed with a story of a young woman and man venturing through the city to only find one another at their departure at an airport gate.