Brazilian Embassy in Argentina (Buenos Aires), built between 1978-89 by Olavo Redig de Campos and Oswaldo Cintra de Carvalho.
According to current climate change projections by the United Nations, almost half the world’s population will be living in areas of high water stress by 2030. As California enters its fifth year of drought, mandatory municipal and statewide water restrictions have localized the issue to the point of further necessary action. Such measures currently lack a viable plan for sustainable urban growth in cities such as Los Angeles, reliant on imported natural resources. Meanwhile, recent speculations fail to recognize the Los Angeles River’s inherent iconic beauty and its potential as a critical ecological resource for water use and management in a densifying city.
WATERshed examines the relationship between urbanization and water use to develop new models of densification that recognize and tap into existing ecological and infrastructural patterns.
By opportunistically occupying public and private land remnants and capitalizing on the redundancies created by an outdated land use and infrastructural network, an entirely new model for urban regeneration can emerge. In these traditionally overlooked residual spaces, LOHA designed a system of interventions at multiple scales, combining living, public space and water-based infrastructure into a new hybrid patchwork that will capture, recycle, purify, loop, and reconnect ground and stormwater back to the water table and the Los Angeles River.
This speculative vision embraces the Los Angeles River as it currently exists and offers a key strategy for working within the urban fabric to add moments of amplified activity. The interventions establish a web of relations and dependencies to make the best use of limited space and finite ecological resources, developing an urban culture in microcosm that sets in motion critical regional transformations.
by @crohas #next_top_architects Proyecto Taller: Restauración Basílica del Salvador, Barrio Brasil. ⛪
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