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Soft Serve: High PLAZA

This semester Superfluous Studio will investigate recreational plazas through an exploration of melting candle wax models which will be essential to the design method. The aim of the studio will be to design a pedestrian plaza in the Highland Park district of greater Los Angeles Currently, there exists a sharp border between residential, commercial and cultural programs and proportionallylarge open parking lots. With the expansion of the Metro line there is a new need of pedestrian access to be met. And to understand and answer to this pedestrian potential of the district the students will be asked to design an open-air mixed-use plaza for cultural and recreational usage.

This plaza will be an area that can be used by local residents, the general public, office workers, students as well as institutional workers. The infrastructural focus of the design process will be to produce easy accessibility from various streets and the new metro station for pedestrians and to design a place for gathering that allows the existing programs on the project site to function as they previously did with the integration of new interwoven public spaces, and semi-private architectural programs. The main focus of the design process will be to reallocate the private open-air parking lots which create temporarily useless pockets of space for pedestrians within the city of Los Angeles and redesign these areas as public plazas for recreational usage.

Soft Serve: High PLAZA

This semester Superfluous Studio will investigate recreational plazas through an exploration of melting candle wax models which will be essential to the design method. The aim of the studio will be to design a pedestrian plaza in the Highland Park district of greater Los Angeles Currently, there exists a sharp border between residential, commercial and cultural programs and proportionallylarge open parking lots. With the expansion of the Metro line there is a new need of pedestrian access to be met. And to understand and answer to this pedestrian potential of the district the students will be asked to design an open-air mixed-use plaza for cultural and recreational usage.

This plaza will be an area that can be used by local residents, the general public, office workers, students as well as institutional workers. The infrastructural focus of the design process will be to produce easy accessibility from various streets and the new metro station for pedestrians and to design a place for gathering that allows the existing programs on the project site to function as they previously did with the integration of new interwoven public spaces, and semi-private architectural programs. The main focus of the design process will be to reallocate the private open-air parking lots which create temporarily useless pockets of space for pedestrians within the city of Los Angeles and redesign these areas as public plazas for recreational usage.

Course examination according to § 6, statute section on "study-law regulations".

to be announced in class

Class will be held in English.