BURIED UNDER THE BLUE

The three communities - Bishop, La Loma, and Palo Verde - used to exist in the neighborhood now known as Elysian Park. The park is now home to one of the most iconic baseball stadiums of all time, hosting the Los Angeles Dodgers. The dark truth behind the eviction of families and disturbance of the land marked an ugly point in LA’s political and social history that is surprisingly unknown to many people, even local residents. The project tackles how a lost community can be recognized The project tackles how a lost community can be recognized home. Three different parts of the site speak different spacial languages that remind residents and visitors alike of what the past was once like and also allow them make new communities within. At the end of the journey is the main view inside the building - one where the user can look out and view the site as one entity that thrives on its own and needs no outside force to defi ne who they are.