CLASS: people knowing
TERM: fall 09
GROUP PARTNERS: julianne weiss, sue yang
For this project we were asked to create an intervention that asks a community to express their perspective around a subject or topic area. This topic had to involve some sort of threshold. Our final decision for the threshold revolved around the idea of escaping the "real world" by entering a new environment.
We chose the community of Runyon Canyon Park to run a series of investigative probes, which further aided in creating a design proposal.
These studies have brought us to three major conclusions:
--Los Angeles inhabitants are starved for a sense of belonging and cohesiveness. Most suggestions were based Downtown or in Hollywood; LA clearly lacks a city center and this strongly impacts the residents.
--People feel at ease amongst wildlife
--A great number of people imagined mixing and matching natural elements. They want the sense of escape to be ever present and accessible.
In response to these findings, we propose an integration of natural elements with the current urban landscape of Los Angeles. We have designed a large scale, hanging garden to be installed on the building facades Downtown. Glass “window boxes” will be mounted to the sides of existing buildings. They will fluctuate in size from 3’ x 5’ to 10’ x 15’ (or perhaps larger) and should be planted with three varieties of hanging vines.
To finalize the project we produced a 30 page book which showed our process and conclusion.
(click here to download a pdf version of the book shown below)
TERM: fall 09
GROUP PARTNERS: julianne weiss, sue yang
For this project we were asked to create an intervention that asks a community to express their perspective around a subject or topic area. This topic had to involve some sort of threshold. Our final decision for the threshold revolved around the idea of escaping the "real world" by entering a new environment.
We chose the community of Runyon Canyon Park to run a series of investigative probes, which further aided in creating a design proposal.
These studies have brought us to three major conclusions:
--Los Angeles inhabitants are starved for a sense of belonging and cohesiveness. Most suggestions were based Downtown or in Hollywood; LA clearly lacks a city center and this strongly impacts the residents.
--People feel at ease amongst wildlife
--A great number of people imagined mixing and matching natural elements. They want the sense of escape to be ever present and accessible.
In response to these findings, we propose an integration of natural elements with the current urban landscape of Los Angeles. We have designed a large scale, hanging garden to be installed on the building facades Downtown. Glass “window boxes” will be mounted to the sides of existing buildings. They will fluctuate in size from 3’ x 5’ to 10’ x 15’ (or perhaps larger) and should be planted with three varieties of hanging vines.
To finalize the project we produced a 30 page book which showed our process and conclusion.
(click here to download a pdf version of the book shown below)