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Cesia Lopez-Angel

Cesia Lopez-Angel

Los Angeles, CA, US

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Recreational Plan and Proposed Infrastructure
Recreational Plan and Proposed Infrastructure
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Sun Valley Community Wash

South of the Hansen Dam lies the small community of Sun Valley with its densely commercial and industrial zoning that spreads along the Tujunga Wash. In its immediate edge, the Los Angeles Flood Control district has established a boundary that delineates the 100 year flood zone that spreads across a series of single family dwellings susceptible to the unpredictable nature of the wash. The community’s open space is demarcated by large industrial excavations that surrounds and define the threshold of the flood zone. This existing condition of wet channels and dry lands evoke the question of delineating the boundary of bipolar and opposing sites; the wet and dry surface.

 By transposing the Venice Canals, a wet morphology on the area of the Tujunga Wash, an ostensibly dry condition, the formal quality of the neighborhood is transformed and a dichotomous condition is created. This project performs as a self sustain filter that cuts through the core of the neighborhood and initiates a system driven by canals that shift with the environmental climate providing for new recreational space where native vegetation, pedestrian and communal activities begin to transform this arid landscape. 

 
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Status: School Project
Location: Sun Valley, CA, US

 
Community Master Planning Collage
Community Master Planning Collage
Existing Conditions
Existing Conditions
Proposed Site Revitalization
Proposed Site Revitalization
Bridge Infrastructure
Bridge Infrastructure
Canals as Public Space
Canals as Public Space
Seasonal Interventions
Seasonal Interventions