Archinect
Tiffany Chen

Tiffany Chen

New York, NY, US

anchor

Urban Confluence

downtown los angeles transit hub

Through the investigation of existing surface parking lots in downtown Los Angeles, this degree project addresses Los Angeles as a city currently infiltrated by “grey goo” embodied by asphalt parking lots. Los Angeles is a city both car oriented and dense.  Its human density, however, is diluted by the parking supply of a suburb.  With many of these lots empty and unused during nonpeak hours, the project proposal argues for a recapturing of the parking lot through pocket parks, urban gardens, and a new farmers market typology for the traditional parking structure that utilizes Metro to revitalize it.

 
Read more

Status: School Project
Location: Los Angeles, CA, US