Site Plan

The site resides..

in L.A.P.D park, located downtown LA, where there are large skycrapers and the hustle and bussle of an urban setting. This energetic and chaotic world of a city can help inspire design for the park itself. The city plan was used to form a grid that would provide a compositional strategy for the park

The Grid...

acts as a guide to determine where different parts of the program would be placed within the park.

First...

The bathrooms, which were also the focus of the park were placed on areas where the grid intersected.

Second...

shells were placed around the bathrooms to fill out the park, but also provide access to the bathrooms.

The Remaining... program elements were placed with respect to either access of the grid, and all of the structures were rotated to provide a more playful feeling to the park surrounding a datum through the center of the park. This datum would eventually become the circulation.

Public Facilities Public Elements

Public Facilities Public Elements

The Shells...

although appeared like solid buildings within the park, were in actuality carved out by subtractive modeling providing unique experiences within each shell. However, the bathrooms that resided within were conversely solid masses.

The Circulation...

is inspired by freeways that have roundabouts, multiple lanes and different ramps thoughout a city. As guests found their ways into the park, they would experience the combination of feeling like they were in a city, but also walking as giants through a freeway like circulation that allowed access to any of the areas along the way.