Academic, '20 Winter
Personal project
Instructor :Christina Tung & Helen Kongsgaard
Type : Community Center
Location : Los Angeles, CA
Personal project
Instructor :Christina Tung & Helen Kongsgaard
Type : Community Center
Location : Los Angeles, CA
Utilizing the existing infrastructure of bodega and private farmland in Boyle Heights to coordinate a larger impact of supply and service in the community. The productive landscape can introduce shades, social spaces and healthy food resource. Creating networks of delivery and pick-ups can spread the impact of the system to a larger community and create a stronger economy system for the people.
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Utilizing the existing infrastructure, a system of the supply and
service can be introduced into the community and the site. The orchard that is in the alleyways of the neighborhood produce fresh fruit and vegetables that will be delivered to the bodega and distribute to the neighborhood to serve a lager community.
The leftover fruits will be delivered to the site as a hub to reproduce the fruit into goods. The site will also be the hub for education and incubator. The whole system will not only serve the community itself but a larger area with fresh products and knowledge.
Expanding on the concept of existing fruit trees, I intend to create a neighborhood orchard that is widely spread in the neighborhood with careful consideration of the species and harvest season. The market can serve as a hub of distribution crops and selling good.
Designated routes can start to pick up the fruit in the community and drop up the reproduced product. As a human scale, the alley way can be designed to create shade and a more walkable space with a dense grid of trees.
I create an economy model for the site as a remote hub to supply the system. It will contain 4 categories of programs, education, admin, storage and market. The site will also be a demonstration site for the productive landscape so the different categories will contain a garden that is part of the program.
The site will provide as a hub for the community to develop the productive landscape in Boyle Heights.
The site will provide as a hub for the community to develop the productive landscape in Boyle Heights.
