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Team 2153
University of California, Berkeley
College of Environmental Design
Christopher Lollini, Master of Science in Civil Engineering
Andrea Gaffney, Master of Landscape Architecture
Brooke Ray Smith, Master of Landscape Architecture
Aditi Rao, Master of Architecture
Robert McCracken, Master of City Planning
Faculty adviser: John Landis
Professional adviser: Clark Wilson, Community Design + Architecture
Tectonics
"Tectonics" accretes disparate fragments of Los Angeles' neighborhoods, cultures, and habitats into striking new epicenters of planar surfaces linked by rich veins of connectivity. Fault zones between neighborhoods and along the river are bridged by East First Street and by a series of green fissures linking transit epicenters with the Mesa, a new regional park thrust atop the railyard. Downtown's monumental scale and the fine-grained textures of Little Tokyo and of the Arts District collide dramatically on the Mangrove Estate. Residential towers erupt from street-level fractures of intricate urban mews and greenways, creating vertical complements to the Mesa's horizontal planes. From Mariachi Plaza to the Mangrove Estate, extensive on-site stormwater management and sustainable design trigger reverberations of greening throughout the urban hardscape. Addressing local needs for open space, recreational, commercial, and entertainment amenities, this tectonic green network connects the core of Los Angeles along critical veins of nature and life.
