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The Inglewood Masterplan
Firm
Type
Residential ›
Apartment
Multi Unit Housing
Commercial › Retail Exhibition Center
Hospitality + Sport › Hotel
Cultural › Gallery Hall/Theater Cultural Center Museum
Educational › Library
Government + Health › Community Center
Landscape + Planning › Public Park
Transport + Infrastructure › Train/Subway
Commercial › Retail Exhibition Center
Hospitality + Sport › Hotel
Cultural › Gallery Hall/Theater Cultural Center Museum
Educational › Library
Government + Health › Community Center
Landscape + Planning › Public Park
Transport + Infrastructure › Train/Subway
YEAR
2011
INGLEWOOD:
A Spatial Ecology
- Cross-Pollination: The transfer of pollen from one plant to a
different plant. This process promotes genetic diversity within the population.
- Polyculture: Agriculture using multiple crops in the same
space (as opposed to monoculture), in imitation of the diversity of natural
ecosystems, taking advantage of the many natural benefits these diverse systems
contain.
- Spatial Ecology: A specialization
of ecology and geography that is concerned with the identification of spatial
patterns and their relationships.
Design
Concept:
A
truly visionary city requires a reframing in the form of a Polycultural Ecology
rooted in the concept of bio-diversity and the benefits of shared systems and
environmental exchange through diverse overlapping, interconnectivity and the
interchange of cross benefiting conditions.
Cross-pollination
is a term we use to explain our approach to urban design focused on developing
the idea of diversity as a tool for sustainable progress. By addressing the unique and often
underutilized spatial conditions within the city (e.g.: awkward areas between transit, civic,
commercial, and residential zones), we are able to focus on the intermixing of
systems, buildings, neighborhoods and communities rather than then the
traditional development of individual uses. By sharing individual benefits with
each other, a stronger overall living condition emerges and a human ecology,
driven by the cross-pollination of co-dependent public and private space, is
established.
Existing
Conditions:
The
City of Inglewood California is a midsize city (diverse population of approx.
112,000, Transect L-5) located within the Los Angeles basin approx. 5 miles
east of the Pacific Ocean. The city
lacks a strong positive regional identity and currently has an underutilized
and under celebrated historic downtown commercial street. There is a large
vacant unused parcel of land (approx. 4.2 acres) at the north end of the
downtown commercial district as well as large park with natural spring water
(currently buried) and forgotten historical significance directly to the
northeast.
Goal:
To
focus on the development of a new environmentally innovative north end hub
along the downtown commercial district, providing regional identity, cultural
and commercial mixed-uses and transportation links, as a catalyst for future
environmentally aligned development of the city at large.
Strategy:
To
develop an environmentally focused city, linking numerous transportation
opportunities, a new civic public plaza space and a new entry into the downtown
district through the creation of a Spatial Ecology. A network of publicly linked spaces that tie
into existing pedestrian spatial patterns and at the same time, expand to the
larger city whole, linking outlying underutilized opportunities such as
Centinela Park and the existing Market Street Commercial corridor. Within the
Ecology itself, a new approach to public space will be implemented that
re-envisions how property and infrastructure is controlled, restricted, shared
and accessed.
These
new property rights, zoning and shared system conditions will allow for both
the horizontal as well as vertical segregation of property to be renegotiated
to create a city where previously restricted or undesirable areas (private roof
tops, alley ways, side yards, etc.) will become opportunities for shared
infrastructure as well as cultural event spaces to form. Areas such as
Centinela Park, with its buried natural springs will be unearthed and
reinstated into the public’s visual domain providing a natural source of
drinking water along pedestrian trails. Waste collection, compaction and
recycling will occur within the various neighborhoods at local Ecology
Stations, scattered throughout the city, creating forums for environmental
education and exchange. The new civic
plaza will be shaded in an orchard of artistically shaped windmills, warped in
a black solar collector skin with limbs that house LED lighting for evening
plaza events. Roof tops of new and existing structures will become water
collection points, solar panel farms and provide the opportunity for local
urban agriculture. To access many of these previously inaccessible spaces a new
set of Vertical Garden Towers (VGT) will be distributed throughout the city ecology.
These VGT’s will be open air vertically accessible public park spaces with
vertical air and light shafts (lanterns at night) into lower level substructure
spaces and contain natural vegetation, each tower being marked by a tree top.
Overall,
a new approach to building, infrastructure and urban space programming will be
implemented that focuses on the concept of cross-pollination. Looking beyond mixed-use zoning it attempts
to co-mingle uses into direct contact fostering creative participation such as a
Children’s Day School coupled within a Senior Center, a local restaurant with
roof top agricultural or a Women’s Homeless Shelter set within a Performing
Arts Center. Through a process of
cross-pollination a new urban condition will arise that creates a polyculture
of building and planning, where what appear to be differing uses will come into
contact creating a network or ecology of participatory enhancing diversity.
A Spatial Ecology
- Cross-Pollination: The transfer of pollen from one plant to a
different plant. This process promotes genetic diversity within the population.
- Polyculture: Agriculture using multiple crops in the same
space (as opposed to monoculture), in imitation of the diversity of natural
ecosystems, taking advantage of the many natural benefits these diverse systems
contain.
- Spatial Ecology: A specialization
of ecology and geography that is concerned with the identification of spatial
patterns and their relationships.
Design
Concept:
A
truly visionary city requires a reframing in the form of a Polycultural Ecology
rooted in the concept of bio-diversity and the benefits of shared systems and
environmental exchange through diverse overlapping, interconnectivity and the
interchange of cross benefiting conditions.
Cross-pollination
is a term we use to explain our approach to urban design focused on developing
the idea of diversity as a tool for sustainable progress. By addressing the unique and often
underutilized spatial conditions within the city (e.g.: awkward areas between transit, civic,
commercial, and residential zones), we are able to focus on the intermixing of
systems, buildings, neighborhoods and communities rather than then the
traditional development of individual uses. By sharing individual benefits with
each other, a stronger overall living condition emerges and a human ecology,
driven by the cross-pollination of co-dependent public and private space, is
established.
Existing
Conditions:
The
City of Inglewood California is a midsize city (diverse population of approx.
112,000, Transect L-5) located within the Los Angeles basin approx. 5 miles
east of the Pacific Ocean. The city
lacks a strong positive regional identity and currently has an underutilized
and under celebrated historic downtown commercial street. There is a large
vacant unused parcel of land (approx. 4.2 acres) at the north end of the
downtown commercial district as well as large park with natural spring water
(currently buried) and forgotten historical significance directly to the
northeast.
Goal:
To
focus on the development of a new environmentally innovative north end hub
along the downtown commercial district, providing regional identity, cultural
and commercial mixed-uses and transportation links, as a catalyst for future
environmentally aligned development of the city at large.
Strategy:
To
develop an environmentally focused city, linking numerous transportation
opportunities, a new civic public plaza space and a new entry into the downtown
district through the creation of a Spatial Ecology. A network of publicly linked spaces that tie
into existing pedestrian spatial patterns and at the same time, expand to the
larger city whole, linking outlying underutilized opportunities such as
Centinela Park and the existing Market Street Commercial corridor. Within the
Ecology itself, a new approach to public space will be implemented that
re-envisions how property and infrastructure is controlled, restricted, shared
and accessed.
These
new property rights, zoning and shared system conditions will allow for both
the horizontal as well as vertical segregation of property to be renegotiated
to create a city where previously restricted or undesirable areas (private roof
tops, alley ways, side yards, etc.) will become opportunities for shared
infrastructure as well as cultural event spaces to form. Areas such as
Centinela Park, with its buried natural springs will be unearthed and
reinstated into the public’s visual domain providing a natural source of
drinking water along pedestrian trails. Waste collection, compaction and
recycling will occur within the various neighborhoods at local Ecology
Stations, scattered throughout the city, creating forums for environmental
education and exchange. The new civic
plaza will be shaded in an orchard of artistically shaped windmills, warped in
a black solar collector skin with limbs that house LED lighting for evening
plaza events. Roof tops of new and existing structures will become water
collection points, solar panel farms and provide the opportunity for local
urban agriculture. To access many of these previously inaccessible spaces a new
set of Vertical Garden Towers (VGT) will be distributed throughout the city ecology.
These VGT’s will be open air vertically accessible public park spaces with
vertical air and light shafts (lanterns at night) into lower level substructure
spaces and contain natural vegetation, each tower being marked by a tree top.
Overall,
a new approach to building, infrastructure and urban space programming will be
implemented that focuses on the concept of cross-pollination. Looking beyond mixed-use zoning it attempts
to co-mingle uses into direct contact fostering creative participation such as a
Children’s Day School coupled within a Senior Center, a local restaurant with
roof top agricultural or a Women’s Homeless Shelter set within a Performing
Arts Center. Through a process of
cross-pollination a new urban condition will arise that creates a polyculture
of building and planning, where what appear to be differing uses will come into
contact creating a network or ecology of participatory enhancing diversity.
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