We believe that architecture, like all forms of intellectual discourse, belongs to the public. We believe that no limitations should be imposed on the public’s access to it. The Bradbury Building, like so many other works of architecture, has been stolen from the public and access to it has been mediated by those who seek to profit from it. We have selected the Bradbury Building among other significant Los Angeles Architecture as a site for our intervention. Through an act of subtraction, we have carved a new entry to the building that circumvents those measures set to keep us out.

Our intervention creates an inserted access point to the building through a simply carved hole. It is expressionless in materiality, but active in form, relating to the larger context of our work. It brings into the foreground the greater vision of public access to all architecture.
Through this act, we invite the public to once again enjoy and benefit from the architecture that
for too long has been locked away from them.

Project Brief

The project involved to dive into LA, or more literally to cut and carve into, the spaces one reveals, and ultimately, the images that are produced.Students chose a iconic buildings all over LA. 
Later, the students were assigned to Design a hole that adds into a relation with the building or has some kind of meaning to it. Bradbury building being one of the oldest buildings in Downtown, LA, it has a high security and circulation restrictions all over. Hence, the purpose of the Guerrilla hole is to let the public enter the building and appreciate its Architecture