02 Mission 3.5
Term: Spring 2020
Professor: Aaron Wright
Program: Residential, Retreat/Resort
Site: Piggyback Railyard, LA, CA
Professor: Aaron Wright
Program: Residential, Retreat/Resort
Site: Piggyback Railyard, LA, CA
“Los Angeles is a city where natural history, aerospace research, astronomical observation, and the planetary sciences hold outsized urban influence. The city has been ornamented with scientific equipment, crowned with electromagnetic antennae, and ringed with seismic stations, transforming into an urban- scale research facility, a living device inhabited by millions of people on the continent’s westernmost edge.”
- Smount Allen & Geoff Manaugh; LA Recalculated
Mission 3.5 focuses on LA as a crossroads for the many different agents of modern society and attempts to speculate architecture’s role within the economies of criminality, development, homelessness, spectacle, observance, machine, & natural order/disorder. The project began with an analysis of LA’s history as a component of the El Camino Real, a 600 mile route connecting 21 Spanish missions along California’s coast. As an extension to the 3rd mission along this route (Mission San Gabriel), exists to serve as a sort of haven the aforementioned agents. As an aid in the design of Mission 3.5, a series of photographs taken by Dennis Feldman acted as example characters for who the space may be designed around.
- Smount Allen & Geoff Manaugh; LA Recalculated
Mission 3.5 focuses on LA as a crossroads for the many different agents of modern society and attempts to speculate architecture’s role within the economies of criminality, development, homelessness, spectacle, observance, machine, & natural order/disorder. The project began with an analysis of LA’s history as a component of the El Camino Real, a 600 mile route connecting 21 Spanish missions along California’s coast. As an extension to the 3rd mission along this route (Mission San Gabriel), exists to serve as a sort of haven the aforementioned agents. As an aid in the design of Mission 3.5, a series of photographs taken by Dennis Feldman acted as example characters for who the space may be designed around.
