Project by Norman Situ, Chao Tang Lin, Chih Chia Huang
The Los Angeles river has historically been the bloodline of the city that connected one community to the next. Its concretization and effective privatization, though necessary for flood management, has turned the natural river into arguably the largest piece of infrastructure in LA that is here to stay. Following the Palisades wildfire, this project explores reactivation of the concrete river to install water infrastructure and community convergence hybrid prototypes at specific Wildland Urban Interfaces. An amphitheater, a community diving pool, and a bridge park - these prototypes stitch back together the communities and fauna disrupted by the concrete river as well as capture and store water to combat wildfires and floods.
