This studio will harvest the Southern California vernacular of Chicanx Urbanism to implement a comprehensive plan across several Los Angeles neighborhoods. This visual and cultural sensibility has the capacity to generate a positive ecological model for residents that have otherwise been forgotten by city planners and policy makers. Rather than focusing on the Eurocentric notion of individual ownership of land and property, this project will treat a neighborhood block as a shared space, co-owned by the residents of that block. Space will be maximized through parametric processes for the optimal generation of energy, water, food, shelter, etc. for the block’s residents.
My project is "performed" through a fictitious narrative in the eyes of the protagonist, John who lives in the future where this site is fully constructed and looks back through his grandfather's journal to understand how this project came to be.
