Over-civilized Waterscape
SCI-Arc Vertical Studio "Fake Nature – LA River"
Park as a sustainable energy plant for the metropolitan LA
G2 Taylor Yard: 1900 N San Fernando Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90065
Florencia Pita
Advisor
Eric Owen Moss
Guest Advisor
Hernan Diaz Alonzo, David Ruy, John Enright, Marcelyn Gow, Andrew Zago
Critic
Participated in overall design production, project management
Credit
Austin Ross
Collaborator
Statement:
The project aims to re-center LA River as a core/origin of the city. To achieve this goal, we amplified the interconnectivity between over-civilized landscape and natural landscape on the site - Taylor Yard G2 located at the middle of the LA River stream.
At the same time, the project challenges the typology of park – playful and refreshing wide open space. The project proposes a park as an energy source of the future sustainable metropolitan LA. The park becomes an extreme infrastructure with natural eco systems co-existing into it. The existing contaminated soil on the site is used to create to new elevated platforms as a mass within a contained structure to allow plant life to grow out of, in turn refurbishing the soil and to make use of the pre existing conditions on the site.
Our proposal extends the LA River’s water way into the G2 site expanding the volume of the channel, allowing for the design to connect to lower levels of the river with sunken platforms.
Midterm Physical Model, 1:200 scale
Midterm Physical Model, 1:200 scale
Final Physical Model, 1:200 scale
Final Physical Model, 1:200 scale
Figure/Ground Composition Drawings & Xray Drawing, inspired by Morphosis
LA River G2 Taylor Yard, 2000
Work In Progress Site Plan, 1:200 scale
Over-civilized Waterscape
SCI-Arc Vertical Studio "Fake Nature – LA River"
Sustainable Energy Plant for the Metropolitan LA
G2 Taylor Yard: 1900 N San Fernando Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90065
Florencia Pita
Advisor
Eric Owen Moss
Guest Advisor
Hernan Diaz Alonzo, David Ruy, John Enright, Marcelyn Gow, Andrew Zago
Critic
Participated in overall design production, project management
Credit
Austin Ross
Collaborator
Statement:
The project aims to re-center LA River as a core/origin of the city. To achieve this goal, we amplified the interconnectivity between over-civilized landscape and natural landscape on the site - Taylor Yard G2 located at the middle of the LA River stream.
At the same time, the project challenges the typology of park – playful and refreshing wide open space. The project proposes a park as an energy source of the future sustainable metropolitan LA. The park becomes an extreme infrastructure with natural eco systems co-existing into it. The existing contaminated soil on the site is used to create to new elevated platforms as a mass within a contained structure to allow plant life to grow out of, in turn refurbishing the soil and to make use of the pre existing conditions on the site.
Our proposal extends the LA River’s water way into the G2 site expanding the volume of the channel, allowing for the design to connect to lower levels of the river with sunken platforms.
Midterm Physical Model, 1:200 scale
Midterm Physical Model, 1:200 scale
Final Physical Model, 1:200 scale
Final Physical Model, 1:200 scale
Work In Progress Site Plan, 1:200 scale
LA River G2 Taylor Yard, 2000
Other Works
