Mark

STRIAPARK L.A.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA


Los Angeles Times December 25, 2005 Norman Lear Center: Grand Intervention Projects

StriaPark proposes a strategy for sustainable downtown neighborhoods consisting of complex networks of living, working, recreational and cultural activities within the urban core of Los Angeles.

As Downtown Los Angeles continues towards full re-population, the noticeable dearth in diurnal activities will become increasingly prescient. This proposal, aims at resisting the separation inherent to the traditional urban zoning designations, and instead offers dense layers of varied use and function. Emerging from this integration is a new urban village with perpetual day/night and week/weekend use.

This strategy for the Grand Street site weaves new park space, recreation, housing, shopping, entertainment and parking into the existing civic and cultural adjacencies that define the site. Contoured topographical superstructures are proposed to both organize and define program and landscape in an effort to blur the conventional boundaries of private and public urban space.

PROJECT TEAM:
orenj: Mike Jacobs, Aaron Neubert (principals), Robert Apodaca, David Chong, Jeremy Fletcher, Jeremy Limsenben, Jimmy Miyoshi.