SWA Dodger Stadium Book

MAROONED NO MORE DODGER STADIUM: BRINGING THE STADIUM TO THE CITY AND THE CITY TO THE STADIUM

MAROONED NO MORE DODGER STADIUM: BRINGING THE STADIUM TO THE CITY AND THE CITY TO THE STADIUM

SWA: LAGUNA BEACH IN COLLABORATION WITH

CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY, POMONA: DEPARTMENT OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

STUDIO CREDITS Instructor Andrew O. Wilcox, Associate Professor

University Support Staff Michael Woo, Dean - College of Environmental Design James Becerra, Lecturer

SWA Team Sean O’Malley, Managing Principal Kevin Slawson Pavel Petrov Andrew Watkins

Studio Participants Kevin Finch George Kutnar Ryan Martin Kenny Sperling Joshua Leyva Natalie Rowe Giovani Aguirre HeeJae Lee Natasha Harkinson Evan Lee Nabyl Macias Phuong Vo

Partnerships The Los Angeles Dodgers Organization The Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Art Direction + Book Layout Pavel Petrov Kevin Slawson

Publication Inquiries press@swagroup.com

CREDITS

TABLE OF CONTENTS 4

Credits and Table of Contents

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SWA Studio Introduction

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Inspiration and Exploration Site Mapping and Analysis

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SWA Studio Participants

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Case Study Projects

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Project Information

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Hopes + Dreams

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Project Background

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City on a Hill

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Field Exploration

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Ball Park

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Design Charrette

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End Credits

M AROONED N O M ORE TABLE OF CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION D o d g e r Sta d i u m: B ri n g i n g th e sta d i u m to th e city and th e city to th e stadium Dodger stadium and its surrounding parking lots are poised for one of the most unique urban adaptations within the City of Los Angeles. Set atop the hill within Elysian Park, adjacent to the Los Angeles River and with a history that reflects the history Los Angeles at large; Dodger stadium is a rare testing ground for a locally based urbanism that leverages the ecology, culture and geography of the city. Dodger Stadium has the potential to be a 21st century proactive development of an economically and ecologically poised site. It is time to explore the methods by which Dodgertown, 90090, might prove to be the innovative, egalitarian and culturally rich site it waiting to be.

This project proposes to explore the potential of capital investment and development of the iconic Dodger Stadium that leverages the ecological and cultural identity of Los Angeles. This project will be the first step in establishing a the Dodgertown district - - a hybrid between park and city, community and entertainment, and ecology and economic development on the edge of the Santa Monica Mountain system -- Dodger Stadium is a case study for a more integrated future Los Angeles. From Chavez Ravine to Dodgertown, Dodger Stadium is marooned no more.

The Studio is dedicated to forecasting landscape based strategies and conceptualizing high performing frameworks to address ecological and cultural issues challenging the future of human habitation. Current and future land-use systems will

be approached as diverse and hybrid ecologies formulated to combat climate change, cultural dilution, biological diversity, awareness and economies. New possibilities will be modeled, economic ecologies will be proposed and territories will be formed through adaptation and informed speculation.

PARTNERSHIP SWA has been pleased to partner with Cal Poly Pomona’s Department of Landscape Architecture to explore the possibilities of the Dodger Stadium site and surrounding areas.

We see this project as having tremendous commercial, cultural, and environmental potential; which creates the perfect laboratory for students to test urban planning and design concepts.

This program will provide students with an opportunity to learn, grow, have real- -life design experience, and expose them to our process and ways of working. At SWA, we see this studio as a great way to explore innovative and exciting design ideas that reinvigorate our practice and strengthen our connection with academic research.

Working with the University ensures that our ideas are fresh, original, and at the cutting edge of the design profession. We hope this collaboration will allow us to grow as designers, further developing our ideas and design thinking while challenging students to develop their design abilities and philosophy.

I NTRODUCTION

SWA S TUDIO I NTRODUCTION CPP/SWA PARTNERSHIP

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COMPONENTS AND ORGANIZATION This is a speculative project. It is not the intent of the studio to make the next great stadium but rather to explore the potential opportunities of the stadium and its context. SWA was involved early in the process to develop the course structure tailored to the needs and potential of the site. The goal was to put the students in a position to propose a visionary development for Dodgertown.

Cas e Stu d y

M ap p i n g + I nve nto ry + V is i o n

A project examining precedents and innovative solutions to the issues identified as being critical to this course. This project will provide the broad cultural, ecological, typological and economic background research for the studio as exemplified by the assigned case projects.

Students created documents and drawings that visually and verbally communicated the attributes of the site. This inventory will also express an individual point-of-view of the unique potential and opportunity of the site.

D e si g n Cha rret te

N a rrati ve D eve l o p m e nt + Writi n g

Students visited the Laguna Beach office for two work session with the SWA Project team to develop their vision and framework. These sessions were broken up intentionally into brief work periods for quick and fluid ideation and visualization. The students focused on five total sessions that covered: Ecology, Transportation/Infrastructure, Urban Typology, Land Use/Programming, and a synthesis of the previous four.

Each phase of the project included a writing component to focus on brevity and clarity of design ideas. The intermediary writing is expected to provide the outline for the final narrative development of the project. Writings were required to be completed weekly.

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I ndi v i du al Desi gn Journal

M o d e l i n g // M ak i n g // I m a g i n g

Each person maintained a design journal for the duration of the project. The journal is a record of process and visual thinking.

Specific attention must be given to the professional quality of the diagrams and a visual language that support the project position. The unique qualities of the future condition must be expressed the images must trigger as much discussion as the diagramming.

U rb a n D e s i g n Fra m ewo rks

D o d g e r Sta d i u m S ite Tou r

Students will propose large- scale frameworks while paying specific attention towards typological development, ecological infrastructure, transportation and circulation systems, and phasing considerations. Each project will visualize and discuss specific systems and infrastructures of proposed development systems and infrastructures of proposed development.

Students and Faculty met with the Dodger Organization for a tour of the Stadium and perimeter parking lots to better understand the scale and character of the area under design.

TEAMS AND PROFILES

H o pes + Dre ams

Phuong Vo The opportunity to work with SWA was more than what I expected. We explored the possibilities of Dodger stadium and surrounding areas which gave me experience of having real-life design and SWA’s process and ways of working. This class gave me opportunities to improve my personal knowledge base, expand my skill sets, and understand deeper my personal values of design. Furthermore, working with my group also helped me learn, grow, and expose myself to different perspectives or ways of thinking.

Nabyl Macias It was always a great interest of mine to make adifference through design. Through this class I found what a profound role spatial considerations and program organization can make on the social engineering of a place. It made me reconsider the term mixed-use. It is not just about having commercial on the bottom and residential at the top or having business offices in the same building. Mixed-use better defines the condition of being efficient with programming and space and at the same time playing a role in the lives of those who live or work there. Creating new interactions that could be facilitated through that condition.

Natasha Harkinson The ‘Marooned no More’ studio has proved itself as a defining and memorable experience for numerous reasons. The amount of time and effort given by the studio faculty and staff of SWA was very helpful in providing a background by which the urban design studio was taught. This studio was successful in terms of synthesizing what it means to design within the urban setting while taking into consideration the dynamics of our social, economic, and environmental values as designers.

Evan Lee The studio collaboration with SWA has been an insightful and helpful experience for learning a strong foundation in urban design. The sum of parts that builds an urban core was new territory for all of us and I feel that it was extremely important to have multiple view points and professional expertise to understand it fully. Some of the lessons I learned have made a significant impact on my design values and also how to approach conflicts as a professional.

City o n a H i l l

Kevin Finch I have always been fascinated with the human response to the environment. While my earlier studies may not necessarily reflect this interest, successive years of research and design application have focused my efforts towards this particular path. I have experimented with concepts of perception, time, light, memory, and immediacy in order to learn how to design catharsis.

Ryan Martin As an older non-traditional student, I had to transition from a life within the work force back into school. It was not an easy decision to make but four years ago my wife and I decided that we could take the challenge. I have to be honest and say that I felt out of place and isolated. my anxiety was reaching new level.

The studio experience and professionalism has forever changed me for the better.

George Kutnar T There’s an analogy I’ve been fond of rreferencing lately. Put a kid in a street fight after a week’s worth of karate lessons; his a previously embedded and innate fighting p i nstincts get muddled as he tries to connect fresh lessons in his head. lessons that c are meant to attach his brain’s information proa cesses with the motor reflexes responsible for c producing physical action from electric signal. p Depending on the opponent, the probability D of him losing his fight is greater than if he had o ffought from instincts.

Kenny Sperling As students, there is always an impetus to challenge the statusquo. But far from being different just for the sake of originality, this project is the most current of a string of recent projects which try to genuinely acknowledge specific preconceived cultural concepts questioning why we think of things in a certain way and if perhaps that line of thought could be different. We took various approaches at first, but ultimately came around to questioning why the people of Los Angeles, or most places for that matter, dislike freeways.

SWA S TUDIO PARTICIPANTS TEAMS AND PROFILES

B al l Park

Joshua Leyva being a student of the Landscape Architecture program has shaped my way of thinking, and in my opinion, has taught me to think holistically. This way of thinking became very helpful this past quarter when taking a first pass at urban design. It was difficult at first not to get caught up in small details of our design, but allowing myself to step back and question my ideas, as well as my group’s ideas, was very beneficial to the strength of our design.

Giovani Aguirre As a design student and apprentice in the design profession, my interests in landscape architecture have always been geared towards social justice. Also, as a student in Landscape Architecture, I have found great interest in making places that affect people in positive ways. In my first introduction to Urban Design this quarter, I realized that the potential affect on people could be much greater for the reason that urban design deals with issues at a much broader scale; the city scale.

Natalie Rowe T This quarter really opened my eyes to Urban Planning and how its both incredibly difficult to P understand, but fun at the same time. My group u was faced with solving the problem of w circulation and accessibility on our site. To c design for the problem, we first needed to d understand how and why congestion was u occurring. The solution to the limited entrances o and narrow streets was to create larger a eco-boulevards that extended into the city. e

HeeJae Lee Looking back at the past ten weeks, the experience that I have had with this quarter has been for me, to say the least, one of the most memorable learning opportunities in a studio class. Not because of the scale and iconic figure of the project but because the project offered me the experience and the knowledge of new ways to approach design in a more urban structure. Knowing the basic approach to urban design and how it can apply to a project I can say I am more confident in designing elements of structures and the relation of building to landscape.

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CONTEXT AND SITE Dodger Stadium and its context of Elysian Park is a location of intense pressures where local land-use and infrastructural realities defy innovation and challenge biological diversity. Yet this unique site is critically positioned to reframe the methods by which the local culture interacts with large regional resources and attractions- a vast opportunity to develop a location that is as big as the dreams and myths of Los Angeles.

The resources and attributes of the Dodger Stadium Site are to be leveraged as opportunities; and evaluated to determine their multiple potentials- uncover the genuinely distinct experiences of the site to present a contemporary landscape of multiple functions rather than solely that of baseball games. finding to expose a resonance within the Los Angeles condition and cultivate a future for it.

Downtown Los Angeles

NorthEast Los Angeles

PROJECT I NFORMATION CONTEXT AND S ITE

Elysyian Park

Dodger Stadium

Lincoln Heights

The Cornfields

Chinatown

Piggyback Yard

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PROJECT I NFORMATION A ERIAL I MAGERY

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PROJECT BACKGROUND

HISTORICAL TIMELINE AND PHOTOS

Historic planning of Los Angeles has been influenced by its unique geographic location, where experiences with the ocean and mountains affect lifestyles on a global to local scale. Los Angeles is heavily shaped through the people and the several ways in which the land was used.

DODGER HISTORICAL TIMELINE

PROJECT BACKGROUND H ISTORICAL TIMELINE

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PROJECT BACKGROUND H ISTORICAL PHOTOS

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PROJECT BACKGROUND H ISTORICAL PHOTOS

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PROJECT BACKGROUND H ISTORICAL PHOTOS

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FIELD EXPLORATION

SITE IMAGES

FIELD E XPLORATION S ITE I MAGES

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FIELD E XPLORATION S ITE I MAGES

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FIELD E XPLORATION S ITE I MAGES

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DESIGN CHARRETTE

AT SWA: LAGUNA BEACH OFFICE

S TUDIO I MAGES CHARRETTE

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INSPIRATION AND EXPLORATION

I NSPIRATION

S TUDIO I MAGES E XPLORATION

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SITE MAPPING AND ANALYSIS PHENOLOGY OF DODGER STADIUM

S ITE M APPING AND A NALYSIS THE TOPOGRAPHIC D ISCONNECT

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THE TOPOGRAPHIC DISCONNECT Topography in Los Angeles has historically proved as anelement of ownership that disvalues equity. Most key points of topography are located through tourist attraction and higher income levels. Dodger Stadium is seen as a humble representation of topographic value.

SUBLIME LOS ANGELES Dodger Stadium contains many unique characteristicsthat revolve around perception and the subliminal view of the landscape. The stadium enables views of both the ocean and mountains, a local characteristic typically viewed in a global setting.

S ITE M APPING AND A NALYSIS S UBLIME LOS A NGELES

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HISTORY Understanding the relationship that the team has with the city of Los Angeles as you study the history of the organization plays an important role in developing a site that addresses that Dodger culture and engages the local fan and resident.

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ECOLOGY An integrated strategy to deal with ecology is imperative to accomplish a succesful urban design intervention. The studio explored the connections between native vegetation and wildlife as it relates to ecological corridors, open space (developed and wild), as well as heat island effect and property usage.

S ITE M APPING

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OWNERSHIP In result of the shifts in ownership of the Chavez Ravine through development and land usages, the sense of personal ownership versus actual ownership can be identified. Whereas in the past, Chavez Ravine was a site of strong personal ownership by the people who inhabited the property, the settlement of Dodger Stadium expanded the actual ownership with the term “L.A. Dodgers� but in result the strong personal ownership of the site is dispersed throughout the city.

FLOW SYSTEMS systems

flow

MAPPING //

In addition to their proximity, there is a visual quality to the freeways and railways which tie them to the LA river. Their shared linear, yet meandering nature implies that these various flows are intrinsically linked and should be considered as part of a unified system. If infrastructure is the defining characteristic of Los Angeles, these systems should be embraced, built upon, and accepted as spatially dominant features they are.

FLOWS ADJACENT TO DODGER STADIUM

S ITE M APPING AND A NALYSIS FLOW S YSTEMS

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FREEWAYS AND CONNECTORS RAILWAYS LA RIVER AND ARROYO SECO RIPARIAN VEGITATION

FLOW SYSTEMS In addition to their proximity, there is a visual quality to the freeways and railways which tie them to the LA river. Their shared linear, yet meandering nature implies that these various flows are intrinsically linked and should be considered as part of a unified system. If infrastructure is the defining characteristic of Los Angeles, these systems should be embraced, built upon, and accepted as spatially dominant features they are.

A UNIQUE CONFLUENCE.

S ITE M APPING

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TOPORTUNITY Topography constitutes the greatest challenge in navigating site access and connectivity considerations. Alternately, it may also provide opportunities for unique solutions that could potentially enhance design decisions. The following diagrams identify three ravines that seem best suited as bases to facilitate both pragmatic access problem-solving, as well as initiate creative inquisition into converting a difficult constraint into potentially interesting and new site features.

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DIRECT ROADWAY CONNECTIVITY

LAND VOID OF EXISTING STRUCTURES

ACCESSIBILITY AND POTENTIAL ACQUISITIONS

IMPEDANCES TO WALKING ROUTES

An imposed system to improve the existing site would likely include elements where individuals are travelling by foot. This mapping highlights roadways which are directly related to travel between union station, the chinatown gold line station, and dodger stadium. The sidewalks adjacent to these roads are currently the only way of accessing the stadium by foot (should one choose to do so.) Also mapped, are open regions currently void of existing structures which may provide opportunities for new developments and thereby possibly new walkable regions. Additionally, the major topographical and structural hindrances are shown as these systems may need to be bridged for any proposal to link the surroundings to the stadium site.

CASE STUDY PROJECTS

PRINCIPLES AND STRATEGIES

Chosen case studies were researched to highlight precedents which exemplify the innovations and methodologies of each project. Several different typologies of projects, methods, systems and spaces were investigated through the research process.

Each case study deals with a unique aspect of the urban setting and utilizes the city context in a variety of ways. The strategies and principles from which the projects are based provide a proper background for the “Marooned no More� Dodger Studio.

CASE S TUDY PROJECTS LOWER D ON L ANDS - TORONTO, CANADA

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CASE S TUDY PROJECTS B UFFALO BAYOU PROMENADE - H OUSTON, TEXAS

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CASE S TUDY PROJECTS M EDELLIN TRANSIT S YSTEM - M EDELLIN, COLUMBIA

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LOCAL LOS A NGELES COMPETITIONS

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CASE S TUDY PROJECTS L ANDSCAPE - LOS A NGELES, CALIFORNIA

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CASE S TUDY PROJECTS BARCLAYS CENTER - B ROOKLYN, N EW YORK

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CASE S TUDY PROJECTS SAFECO + CENTURY L INK FIELD - S EATTLE, WASHINGTON

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HOPES +DREAMS

AN URBAN FRAMEWORK FOR DODGER STADIUM

This project will be the first step in establishing the Dodgertown district. Dodger Stadium is a case study for a more integrated future of Los Angeles. A hybrid between park and city, community and entertainment, ecology and economic development on the edge of the Santa Monica Mountain system.

Gold Line

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Corn Fields

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Union Station

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Down Town

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Gold Lin Aqua Line Blue Line

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URBAN FRAMEWORK Los Angeles has been historically influenced by its geology, unique culture, and continuous growth fueled by its close proximity to the ocean, mountains, and outdoor lifestyle.

Since the Dodgers relocated from Brooklyn, a unique baseball culture has developed throughout Los Angeles. The foundation of Dodger culture stemmed from a redevelopment of the Chavez Ravine, the land that the stadium was constructed on. Although the stadium was established with much controversy, the topographic conditions provide for perceptual qualities which include 360 degree views of Los Angeles with angles wide enough to view downtown LA, the ocean and mountains. These qualities associated with the site are of exceptional value to Dodger culture, as it is the only stadium of its kind, resulting in high land values. A majority of the site is contained by parking lots.

The hopes and dreams of this project are derived from the experience associated with the California dream. The idea that there was a sense of aspiration and a value of equity in the people that first moved to the southern California region can be proven, as hopes and dreams continue today with people moving to Los Angeles in hopes of fame and fortune. The project is a 21st century representation of hopes and dreams. Hopes are connected through the built environment and its tangibility to the public realm. Dreams are connected with the subliminal qualities associated with the location of Dodger Stadium. The framework encourages a juxtaposition of systems that seeks to create a new model for transportation, ecology, human scale and physical boundaries. A new urban typology will evolve over time, creating a self-sustaining, aspirational community that facilitates the journey and experience, equity and integration of all people, collaboration of infrastructural systems, and opportunities for growth and success within the landscape.

Drawing from inspiration from the displacement of the Chavez Ravine community, our design strives to increase social equity. A mix of market rate and affordable housing allows for opportunities to live, work, learn, and grow in an adaptable community.

Our concept is based on the California dream and the journey through Los Angeles to the Dodger Stadium site. The dream is a progression of five programs which succeed one another: climate, fortune, ability, opportunity, and lifestyle. The progression of a Dream sets the base foundation for the urban typology. The five programs that overlap throughout the site emphasize the development of interaction, which results in the adaptive resilience of the community.

A M o d e l fo r Tra ns p o r tati o n Transportation networks were important in determining connections from Dodger Stadium to the greater LA area. This concept emphasizes equity and the integration of all modes and methods of transportation that currently exist within the downtown area. Modes of transportation include bus, car, rail, bike, foot trails, on and off site parking availability, and the proposed gondola lift. By providing a wide variety of transportation modes, a more innovative approach to the ¬hopes and dreams of transportation can be achieved. Transportation is significant in giving the urban form of this plan a value in hierarchy.

The experience associated with each mode of transportation was taken into consideration when determining the integration of systems with Dodger Stadium. It is in our values that a variety of modes of transportation be provided in order to further extend each opportunity to all.

A new gondola system will be implemented with stops located at major access points in downtown LA and all the way up to Dodger Stadium. Since the current game day strategy at the stadium is heavily congested, the gondola lift system will free surface congestion at Dodger Stadium.

The gondola lift uses the existing topography as a catalyst for movement to and from the stadium. The system is an immediate fix to the game day traffic issues that exist throughout the baseball season. We project that the gondola will be phased into the city of LA through a series of network stops where several modes of transportation intersect at one point. By doing this, we can ensure a sense of equity in the way the gondola lifts can be accessed. The prospective gondola network stops give the city a greater potential to create a larger urban network through the various stops. The opportunity for commercial and retail development will also be provided through this system.

This model for transportation connects all forms addressed and brings them into a solid network of options for all to encompass. Our concept, based on the California dream and the journey through Los Angeles, will be well served through this network of existing systems. The plan recognizes that the current transportation system in LA is successful, although a connection between all types is necessary. Given the local context of Dodger Stadium, our design seeks to connect to the upcoming areas of development such as the Los Angeles River Master Plan, Piggyback Yards, and Union Station. A greater network of transportation options will serve a large population. By connecting to existing means of public transportation, each mode will provide a unique experience and dynamic on the journey to Dodger Stadium.

THE PROGRESSION OF A DREAM The five systems created by the progression of a dream are: open space (public realm), commercial-retail, institutional and education, commercial-business, and residential housing. The mixing and overlap of these systems creates varieties that will encourage social interactions on a level that is successful within an urban setting. The overlaps in the various forms of land use encourage mixed use buildings that piece the narrative of hopes and dreams together.

CL I M AT E The value of open space in our concept is significant in that the various types of open space, whether public or private, will encourage movement throughout the site. This concept serves types of open space that are meant to enjoy the experience of the California lifestyle where climate is a year-round asset. The progression of a Dream, when relating to climate, began with people coming to California for its climatic qualities. Our concept seeks to serve the value that people once had as they moved west. The goal is to achieve a sense of unique climate quality within the urban form, and this value is achieved in the landscape through a variety of forms in open space. The public realm is important in determining the movement of people through a given space, the opportunity

for interaction, and the ability to maintain spatial connections over time. By providing spaces that are vast/open or closed/narrow, we seek to achieve variety within the landscape.

FO R T U N E Fortune translates to a new typology as the commercial/retail hub of Dodger Stadium. Although this project concentrates on the future of Los Angeles, Dodger Stadium is fully functional stadium throughout the baseball season. The value of fortune in this concept deals with more than the hopes and dreams of the people of Los Angeles. Providing a retail hub for Dodger culture will increase revenue for the team, and it will attract crowds on a year-round basis as well.

When looking at the ‘fortune’ aspect of the progression of a Dream, people were attracted to California as it was perceived as a place to build a fortune and live a lifestyle unimaginable. The goal of this project is to live through the fortune of the people that first moved westward by providing the larger community with the opportunity to communicate their fortunes through retail business. The network of retail shops, small or large scale, will be located closest to the stadium entrances with a view looking into downtown Los Angeles. Since our concept is heavily faceted on the value of experience, the fortune framework of this project is located near the most access points through transportation.

ABILIT Y The opportunity to provide institutional land uses such as educational facilities is significant in this project. In adhering to the California dream concept, our goal is to introduce a creative arts and the act of making/producing emphasis within the Dodger site. Although we understand that Dodger culture will draw the fan base to the stadium during the season, a new educational background to the site will retrain the workforce that was displaced from the city of Los Angeles. Dodger Stadium is the perfect site to reintroduce the impact that growth and knowledge has on one’s hopes and dreams. Many people who dreamed of moving to Los Angeles had aspirations to surround themselves in the arts community, and this project uses that inspiration in creating small hubs of creative arts campuses throughout the site. By including institutional facilities for all to use, the site will be encompassed by a variety of individuals aspiring to become more successful.

O PPO R T U N I T Y Since the site of Dodger Stadium is centrally located between freeways, several modes of transportation, and the downtown core of Los Angeles, the opportunity to further introduce the stadium into the city can be achieved.

Relating back to the California dream, the value of opportunity within our concept will make a significant impact on the types of people that we envision to access the site. The plan provides a variety of mixed uses that can be correlated back to the narrative where equity is achieved through integration of all systems. The journey and experience associated with each land use type is important. Providing high-rise business towers and office space can accentuate the land values at Dodger Stadium.

L I F EST Y L E Ultimately, the lifestyle associated with southern California and Los Angeles is the result of the progression of a Dream. By providing opportunities in climate, fortune, ability, and opportunity, this concept seeks to bring the hopes and dreams of the people to Dodger Stadium for a new urban community to thrive.

The implementation of several types of residential housing will provide social equity within an array of opportunities.

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SITE CIRCULATION The strategy used for the model of transportation was based from existing routes and conditions. A focus was placed on the existing condition and how it is dealt with in the urban setting. As Hopes and Dreams determine that equity is valued, we must examine the possibilities of transportation through the current network that runs Los Angeles. To de-maroon Dodger Stadium, a series of transportation studies were performed

to locate the locations with highest potential to serve as future gondola lift stations. These stations will serve as local commercial/retail and residential developments as a means to improve connectivity in the city. The variety of strategies is a focus for this concept. The Hopes and Dreams of transportation are achieved through this simple, efficient system.

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H OPES + D REAMS A ERIAL PERSPECTIVE

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H OPES + D REAMS COMPOSITE PERSPECTIVE

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THE URBAN FRAMEWORK: SYSTEM OVERLAP HOPES are portrayed through the built environment: lifestyle, ability, fortune, and opportunity.

DREAMS are portrayed through the experience associated with the landscape: climate and views.

The mixing and overlap of these systems creates varieties that will encourage social interactions on a level that is successful within an urban setting. The overlaps in the various forms of land use encourage mixed use buildings that piece hopes and dreams together.

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BUILDING TYPOLOGICAL PARTS Typological parts were developed systematically following the progression of a dream. The five parts of the sequence have a complimentary type. The overlaps in the Progression of a Dream Diagram dictate the combination of the types. The combination then becomes the typology to be placed in the corresponding overlap.

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SATELLITE PARKING Satellite parking is another solution to provide relief during game day. This system will also provide linkages to the city and promote economic growth to surrounding communities. City outspread of gondola system. Gondolas act as an immediate solution to the transportation issues and serve to provide linkages to the city. Dodger stadium serves as a catalyst for opportunity by allowing development and reconnection. Variety and layering within the urban fabric serve as the opportunity of aspiration by implementing a choice of movement and occupation.

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LAND USE AND PROGRAMMING

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CLOUD PATTERNING LANDSCAPE • • •

Amorphous planting structure Forms public interface Creates atmospheric condition

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PARKING ENTRANCE FROM ACADEMY ROAD

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PHASING AND TRANSPORTATION The implementation of a greater transportation network to and from Dodger StaTdium will require a phasing period of five to fifteen years. With traffic and congestion during game days at Dodger Stadium, the site will be best adapted to the urban form through a series of phasing options.

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- ro of to p o c cu p ati o n -side e ntrance to stadium - stad i u m g o n d o l a sto p - D o d g e r Sta d i u m retai l h u b

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THE EQUALIZING LANDSCAPE + dream/ experience created by the landscape + hopes/ interactions created by the programming within various typologies Open space is allotted at different scales. Porosity allows for movement through the site.

Variation is created by differenciated architectural framing.

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CITY ON A HILL

AN INFRASTRUCTURAL ARCHETYPE FOR THE NEXT NATURE OF LOS ANGELES

Utilitarian origins, sterile design, and a state of detachment from urban environments have vilified the infrastructural systems of Los Angeles. Rather than stigmatizing these anthropogenic constructs, a future must be conceived where banal engineered edifices transform into conglomerates of dynamic urban conditions. We propose a framework – an intelligently composed fabric proliferating infrastructural convenience and capacity while intertwining a mesh of fertile urbanity, seeking to poise an archetype for the next nature of Los Angeles.

URBAN FRAMEWORK “...the immediate feeling was, how do we not mess this up?

What we found there was so special and strange that any design needed to amplify those conditions.” - James Corner Chavez Ravine is poised for varietal adaptation. It isn’t an urban relic in the same sense as the High Line, to which Corner was referring, yet it is a set of highly peculiar conditions. So how do we not mess this up? It isn’t a blank canvas. It’s a complex preexisting system of functions that masquerade as an isolated entity nestled within a topographic fortress.

Marooned?

Analogies are extremely useful tools in the process of conceptual development. It is absolutely vital in the context of a project scope such as this to position the scale of utilized analogies appropriately (and any thinking for that matter). The ultimate goal here is the creation of a framework – an intelligently composed fabric that proliferates the best possible opportunities and conditions for function to take place. Sans additional adjectives to further define the specific types, the word function by itself is vague. This is good. It’s obscurity is our first clue that we should be contending with systems of particularly large, yet still intimately intertwined scales.

The function of Dodger Stadium is wounded. Games are still played, visitors still come and go, but the latent potential of the site on which the stadium sits is grossly untapped. Patrons arrive in the third inning and leave in the seventh, a flow that is symptomatic of flawed accessibility. This would constitute a seemingly legitimate basis from which to posit an entire focus and argument, but the obligation to tap into larger meanings and scales relegates this condition as a gateway to more, rather than an all encompassing focal point. Once the task of itemizing effect and tracing cause is set in motion, the adherence to consciousness of scale unveils an opportunity to fold gameday traffic flow into a much larger discussion. Dodger Stadium is a Los Angeles icon. It is an organ of the city body.

Anything relative to its function that is either helped or hindered will subsequently help or hinder the system of the city. The magnitude of this effect is dependent upon the intensity of the gesture. Chavez Ravine does not need parkification. Chavez Ravine begs to be considered as a component of an organism whose tendrils creep outward along routes both visible and invisible. Marooned? In a sense, yes, but far from an absolute condition. The very entities that appear to produce this perceived state of isolation happen to also hold the greatest potential to enhance a myriad of the site’s functions. We have found this evident of the sites topographical challenges, yet it is the sterile and alienating nature of transportation infrastructure which lends itself to a more pervasive opportunity.

• • • The infrastructural patterns of the Los Angeles region are the primary organizational elements defining space and providing orientational logic at the broadest scale. The freeways in particular are the most dominant infrastructural pattern and the most useful as an orienting system. To the culture of Los Angeles, these structures are immensely significant; a reflection of the ubiquity of personal transportation and the spirit of individual freedom which comes with it. However, as they were engineered as purely utilitarian means of transportation, void of any significant design influence, they have come to lay over the landscape with little response to the underlying ecological or urban patterns.

At the time when the earliest cities of the region were being founded, railways were the dominant interconnecting infrastructural system. It was the inclusion of rail stations in city planning which allowed an urban center to arise where only a small community may have existed previously. Under this developmental framework, it was the availability and access to transportation infrastructure which acted as a catalyst for urban growth. Once freeways were introduced and became the dominant organizing infrastructure however, the relationship between transportation and urbanity had shifted. Although it is evident that the freeways did allow for the continued expansion of urban development at the fringes of the region, in the places where the freeways cut through existing urban and suburban fabric, the perception was radically different. The physical act of cutting a highway through communities and dividing oncecontiguous places imparted the freeways with a malicious stigma. This coupled with the fact that many of the freeways run through less affluent neighborhoods (because of reduced opposition during development) created a situation where there was very little motivation or perceived inherent ability of the freeways to be a catalyst for urban development or renewal.

Another important factor was that the visual appearance of the freeways themselves were (and still remain) sterile and for the most part completely void of any design influence. These massive concrete constructs were conceived entirely as engineered products in a utilitarian bias to serve a singular purpose. As a result, it came to be the view of most of the inhabitants of the region that freeways were a necessary evil for convenient transportation rather than a monument to the prowess of human ingenuity and a representation of the available independent opportunities so characteristic of Los Angeles .

Freeways have been maligned by the communities they serve for nearly the entirety of their existence. They have been demonized as supporters of pollution and inducers of sprawl,

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yet all of this contention is ultimately tied back to the misformed cultural perception which began at the initiation of the typology. Having been devised as singular in use and since they are often sealed off from the urban fabric by walls, culverts, and overpasses, freeways are seen as transitional spaces -- an alternate realm of being, neither here nor there. There is little inherently malevolent about an infrastructural element which allows the convenience of personal transportation and (sometimes) the speed to reach distant destinations quickly, but because they are so visually detached from their urban surroundings, freeways have become an “other”; an interloper to vilify.

The proposition developed for this site was conceived as a diverse, yet highly interconnected framework which seeks to pose an argument of infrastructure’s ability to guide Los Angeles to an adapted future. Our manifold goals are to: merge urbanity and infrastructure spatially, allow bold infrastructural acts to facilitate density, balance the transportation modes of walking and driving more evenly, develop structural components which permit and conduct movement, ease and distribute rapid and direct movement, weave systematic typologies and avoid mono-use, respond to and enhance inherent site conditions, and create an archetype for intervention elsewhere in the Los Angeles region.

Due to the undeniable convenience of freeways, their continued use in the foreseeable future, and the synonymous nature of the private car with the identity of Los Angeles, it will become increasingly necessary to organize the urbanity of the region in response to this transportation infrastructure and to embrace it as an integral aspect of the region’s vitality. Doing so will necessitate a shift in the cultural perception of freeways, yet fortunately this may may come naturally as infrastructure is shifted from sterile utilitarianism to designed spaces responding to local geographic and cultural identities. (It’s difficult to hate something you see as part of yourself). Advancements in automobile technology will facilitate this shift as well, allowing sound wall removal and closer building proximity as the noise and emissions from vehicles decrease. If the region as a whole begins to organize as a networked infrastructural and urban system comprised of series of locally responsive elements Los Angeles may begin to reveal veiled qualities of its identity in profoundly beautiful ways.

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• • • The Dodger Stadium Site is a location fertile for the introduction of a new urban archetype aiming to make meaningful connections to the transportation infrastructure of Los Angeles. The existing site’s most pressing dilemma is a dire need for enhanced transportation facilitation to serve the massive fluctuations on game days. The site is also immediately adjacent to SR-110, the Arroyo Seco Parkway, historically notable as the first freeway in the western United States and remaining as a significant conduit into downtown Los Angeles. Additionally there exists a dynamic set of proximal resources from which a highly complex local identity may be crafted: Elysian Park as public open space and part of the ecological system of the Santa Monica mountains, the Los Angeles river to which site hydrologic systems drain, a diverse array of adjacent residential communities, a highly complex topographic condition, and of course the substantial cultural attraction of Dodger Stadium itself.

Our conceptual basis for urban intervention on the Dodger Stadium Site derives in part from a specific understanding of “mat urbanism” as a typology and framework inherently concerning itself with the facilitation of movement and interaction over the figural representation of form. Mat type constructs act as conduits through which the life and energy of a city flows, whereas a conventional urbanity consists primarily of separate and defensible enclosures which relegate moving systems to the streets. Mats are amorphous, creating space where necessary; they are adaptive to change over time and responsive to unpredictability; they connect spaces, merge uses, and organize intervalic voids. They are also fractal, each part representing the design and intent of the system as a whole. The conductive nature of the mat typology is advantageous as a urban framework on the Dodger Stadium Site as a facilitator of movement. It also highly appropriate as a typology capable of interfacing with transportation infrastructure at large; a means of engaging and intertwining an urban system across and through infrastructural spaces.

Another systematic model used to devise an urban strategy stems from the idea that all types of urban growth in general can be described as if they are biological processes. Beyond mere metaphor or visual similarities, comparisons to living organisms can accurately model the functions and processes that occur within a city at a broad scale. The dominate ephemeral processes which occur regularly at Dodger Stadium is the massive influx and efflux of fans on game days. These movements have strong comparisons to tidal actions. In order to mitigate the volume of these flows, to relieve congestion and disperse crowds, corals were investigated as a biological model. Coral accretion occurs in direct response to ocean currents and their form comes from an organizational necessity to trap the microorganisms on which they feed. This form appears as an array of hyperbolic shapes, a conglomeration which focuses a broad volume about a series of smaller points,

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facilitating feeding and slowing the tidal flow rate. This geometric reference is ideal for implementation on the Dodger Stadium Site as the creation of subsidiary urban spaces in a non-linear fashion will slow the flow rates in and out of the stadium as well as providing the site with greater economic gain potential as fans will be inclined to remain on site for a longer duration both before and after games.

These two conceptual references, mat urbanism and the configuration of corals, can be understood as a unified typology as their essential qualities are related. Both are organizational frameworks rather than figural constructs and both are in response to the dynamics of a flowing system. They are each intrinsically fractal: mats containing a series of spaces within a larger spatial network, and coral reefs containing colonies of coral species each consisting of thousands of individual polyps.

Also, in that they are each concerned with flows, they both address the efficiency of spatial organization, focusing their attention progressively across a hierarchy of spaces as they are determined by the volume of flows. This desire for efficiency produces an amorphous general form which is highly interconnected, yet leaves gaps where intervention is unnecessary.

These gaps in turn provide fertile grounds for other interconnected systems, such as how ecological networks typically occupy inverse spaces from structural development.

• • • Combining the stated conceptual frameworks with our analysis of the site (from which we arrived at a determination that the dramatic topographical changes were more of an opportunity than a constraint) we conceived of a identity for the proposed development as a “City on a Hill.” This name references the perceptual image of medieval European hill towns, and while the amorphous conceptual frameworks and engagement with topographical concerns supports this notion, the resulting urban forms move well beyond historic typologies.

In order to address transportation and movement as the defining characteristic of the site, the elements on site are organized according to their hierarchy of flow facilitation. The first level in this hierarchy is the transportation infrastructure proper.

These include adjustments to the ramps on and off SR-100, a proposed highway flyover extending Alameda Street into the site and its connectors to SR-110, expansions of Stadium Way and Elysian Park Way, as well as the hierarchy of roadways internal to the site. Secondary to these are the combined situations which encourage the development of social activities.

These include parks, plazas, interior public spaces, and similar environments. Third is the interconnected mat framework which encompasses the totality of all structures on-site (the stadium

included); spaces which may be semi-private yet still allow uninterrupted flow throughout the site. Last is the ecologically oriented web of spaces which will see little human use, but will aid in the movement of other indigenous species.

The final significant aspect of the site is a massive parking structure in the ravine to the south of the site proper. This was implemented as a bold infrastructural move initially to service game day parking and free up space for a dense urbanity void of surface parking. However, this structure became much more than a vertical vehicle storage space; it revealed itself as the champion of the array of intents designed to combat the argument at large. Nestling itself into a ravine, the structure addresses the particular site qualities, transforming a topographic challenge into an elegant opportunity. The structure exists neither above or below ground, or in a sense it’s both ways.

The structure sits in a hole which doesn’t require excavation, and it simultaneously creates a direct surface connection in the direction of downtown Los Angeles. Literally it is a infrastructural condition which permits urban density and encourages walking as a means of movement throughout the site, however with its tremendous scale it also supports a layered complex of systems; essentially transforming a banal construct of megapolitan necessity into a conglomerate of dynamic urban conditions.

Most importantly, this structure itself became archetypical as a unit; poised to proliferate the broader landscape, both reacting to specific contexts and initiating an adapted urban state.

• • • The current condition of the Los Angeles region already exists essentially as a mat, a low-lying interconnected set of communities tied together by infrastructure, yet as a whole it lacks legibility. The perceptual deficiencies of the infrastructure, and in particular the freeway system, are primarily to blame for the imagined separateness of these contiguous places. The status of automobile transportation (or at least the desire for a personal mode of movement) is unlikely to change significantly toward a more public means as our civilization progresses into the future. It also goes against many sensibilities that we should “give up” our cars. The best direction toward which a civilization can progress is forward. In many ways, increasing the use of buses, trains, and bicycles, is a regressive act, raising the white flag and claiming that our progress is killing us. We don’t need to erase our progress, or retreat toward historic successes to solve our contemporary issues. The vehicles and infrastructure which enable our convenient personal movements are currently dirty, ugly, and exist in many ways apart from what we imagine our homes to be. Yet rather than stigmatizing our progress, instead we must conceive of a future which takes advantage of the best qualities of our current situations and improves upon them.

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CULT INTER

A MODEL FOR MICROCOSM The dodger stadium site poses an opportunity toward a radical reimagining of los angeles’s future because it is a microcosm of several regional systems. There are existing open space and ecological resources with the adjacent elysian park, it is nearby the los angeles river, the gold line metro and the sr-110 freeway run to the southeast of the site, a variety of residential communities are nearby, and the stadium itself offers a valuable cultural resource.

Additionally the success of an established stadium will act as a support system by which a new urban typology may arise [1]. the views from the hillside [2] and the adjacent elysian park [3] are attractive resources to provide demand for site development. the site is also the largest area with potential for development with a close proximity to downtown los angeles [4].

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OPEN SPACE

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PUBLIC TRANSIT

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DESIGN STRATEGIES Our generalized framework for site intervention is to develop a new typology for housing, play to the site’s latent strengths, integrate ecological systems, create more direct urban interfaces with infrastructure, and develop a walkable community. valuable cultural resource.

ENCOURAGE WALKING

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INTEGRATE ECOLOGIES

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PARKING STRUCTURE CIRCULATION The current condition of the Los Angeles region already exists essentially as a mat, a low-lying interconnected set of communities tied together by infrastructure, yet as a whole it lacks legibility. The perceptual deficiencies of the infrastructure, and in particular the freeway system, are primarily to blame for the imagined separateness of these contiguous places. The status of automobile transportation (or at least the desire for a personal mode of movement) is unlikely to change significantly toward a more public means as our civilization progresses into the future. It also goes against many sensibilities that we should “give up� our cars. The best direction toward which a civilization can progress is forward. In many ways, increasing the use of

buses, trains, and bicycles, is a regressive act, raising the white flag and claiming that our progress is killing us. We don’t need to erase our progress, or retreat toward historic successes to solve our contemporary issues. The vehicles and infrastructure which enable our convenient personal movements are currently dirty, ugly, and exist in many ways apart from what we imagine our homes to be. yet rather than stigmatizing our progress, instead we must conceive of a future which takes advantage of the best qualities of our current situations and improves upon them.

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diagrammatic plan

roads and highways

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SITE SYSTEMS

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SYSTEMATIC MULTI-USE INFRASTRUCTURE HARDSCAPE BUILDINGS SOFTSCAPE EXISTING GROUND

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BALL PARK

BRINGING THE STADIUM TO THE CITY AND THE CITY TO THE STADIUM

With a fragmented park system plaguing the social landscape of Los Angeles, it is time to reclaim marooned spaces and make them function parts of the city. Elysian Park and Dodger Stadium can team up to create a new “Ball Park,” where improvements in accessibility, social and ecological performances, can serve to create a new lifestyle to help guide the city into a better future.

URBAN FRAMEWORK Park space in LA is not easily accessible to everyone in the city. In terms of volume, the city does hold some key resources but there is a problem in how this open space is used and accessed by people as well as by natural organisms. Along with small pockets of open space scattered throughout Los Angeles, there is a consolidation of two major bodies of open space areas within the metropolitan LA area: Elysian and Griffith Park. These open space areas are used primarily for recreational programming and mediocre efforts in conservation resulting in severely underutilized open space. Preserving the remaining open space resources is crucial, however a more important strategy should focus on how we shift the way these parks are used to serve the city of Los Angeles in a more meaningful fashion.

The usage of these opens spaces is crucial for the health and advancement of the city. Of the two major open spaces within the metropolitan LA area, Elysian park is severely underutilized and has the potential to serve the city in a much greater manner. The park’s limited range in programming, coupled with nonexistent public transportation connections, leaves little for the people of LA to desire. The park is heavy with passive areas for picnicking and trails for walking as well as more active spaces that include little league baseball fields. The site is also home to LA’s Police Academy and the Chavez Ravine Arboretum. With the activities currently offered, Elysian park is far from the “paradise” that its name was originally intended to convey. Topography is partially to blame for the limited amount of programming at Elysian park, but as its neighbor from across the street has shown, Dodger Stadium has overcome topographical issues by heavily engineering the site it (and its massive parking lots) sits on.

Dodger stadium sits on a property almost 300 acres in size where almost half of that is covered in asphalt to accommodate 16,000 parking spaces. The home of the LA Dodgers is a huge attraction in itself for the residents of the greater LA area but getting to it can be a challenge on game day. LA’s notorious traffic along with the under scaled transportation infrastructure surrounding the stadium can lead to a

frustrating trip to the game. The stadium and its property are utilized heavily on game day, but what happens when there is no game at the stadium? The stadium, and more importantly the parking lots, stays relatively empty most of the year since a baseball season typically entails less than 100 home games. That means that for almost two thirds of the year, Dodger stadium and its 160 acres of parking space sit empty with no public access to it.

With Elysian Park’s lack in programming options and Dodger stadium’s empty parking lots, a great amount of space is being preserved but more can be done with these spaces to better serve the people of LA. Greater access into this large combination of space, as well as improvements in social performance would give this area the opportunity to give so much more to the people of the city. Along with changes in accessibility and social performance, making the land perform ecologically could provide new lifestyles and a new way of living. LA is ready for a cultural shift by blurring boundaries and reevaluating the role of open space within the city. As the population of LA continues to increase, creative solutions need to be found that provide enough open space to improve both the environmental and social health of the city.

Elysian Park and Dodger Stadium are extremely valuable pieces of land for both monetary and symbolic reasons, but essentially holding them hostage from the rest of the city is simply a waste of space where development pressures within the city are increasing. The combination of Elysian Park’s open space and the local icon that is Dodger Stadium, have the potential to serve as a vibrant nexus and a completely new way of urban living within the city of Los Angeles. A reevaluated Elysian Park can serve as a regional hub for programmable functions and activities, while Dodger Stadium can provide the iconic symbol and entertainment base that will continue to appeal to people. The hybridization of open space and a thriving baseball stadium can give new meaning to what the old “ball park” can become. In order to benefit Los Angeles in the future, this new ball park would have to accommodate people all year around. One

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way this could happen is by having people living in this new ball park hybrid. Even with the large amount of space that Elysian Park and the Dodger Stadium parking lots provide, there simply isn’t enough space to accommodate future generations with single family homes. This new development at the “ball park” would surely have to be some form of high density living. With the implementation of upgraded transportation infrastructure, updated social programs, and an implementation of ecological performance measures, this new Ball Park development has a chance to create a new way of living.

The Ball Park is something that can provide a new lifestyle to the people living in it, but it must also be accessible to the rest of the city. The problems that plague the city’s parks must be addressed in order for this new system to work. Accessibility to the ball park is extremely important and must be addressed effectively before the rest of the new Ball Park starts to take shape.

Los Angeles’ network of parks is very fragmented in comparison to other cities in the country. This gives reason to the “park poor” label that is usually associated with LA. In one example, over 95 percent of the residents in San Francisco, Boston, and New York all have access to a park within half a mile. The percentage for residents in Los Angeles who have access to a park at walking distance (half a mile) is dramatically lower at 52 percent. Considering that most of the volume of open space in Los Angeles is concentrated in larger and separated parcels, the percentage of people accessing those areas might be smaller. It is unimaginable to think that these large spaces can be broken up and divided evenly amongst the city, but people in the city should all have the opportunity to reach this space easily. It is currently difficult to do this unless you live right next to these open spaces or drive into it. Elysian Park has no public bus lines that take you into it. There are bus lines that will take you close to the park, but that leaves a person with a walk that can be strenuous considering the elevation changes in that area. Accessing Dodger games can be difficult in their own right. Most people drive to the stadium creating a viscous transition from the major boulevards and freeways into the smaller streets surrounding the stadium, before making it to the parking lot. Mitigating these issues can be difficult considering the scale of this location compared to anything else in the city, but improvements are imperative if the Ball Park is to function in the future.

Enhancement of public transportation systems would create a new viable option for getting to the ball park. The easiest way to get to Dodger Stadium and Elysian Park at the moment is to drive there. LA Metro’s “gold line” is the nearest light rail connection to Elysian Park, but it is not close enough to walk to easily. One option would be to connect a bus or shuttle to the gold line and exclusively bring passengers back and forth. This seems like a viable option when there is not a game going on at the stadium, but what happens when large amounts of people need to get to the stadium? A simple shuttle system would quickly be overwhelmed. In planning for a “worst case scenario” for getting people up and down to Dodger Stadium on game day, a range in options seems like the best method for moving close to 40,000 people into the site. We are a far cry from saying that people in LA will stop driving their cars anytime soon, but if somehow the number of cars coming into the site can be lessened, streets around the site might not be as congested. In planning for the future and for game day and non game day scenarios, another option would be to have a new light rail line connecting the gold line at Chinatown, to the “red line” past Silver Lake. This new line would have at least one stop at Dodger Stadium before continuing towards Sunset Blvd before getting to the red line. A new light rail line would only open the Ball Park up to more people.

Dodger fans come from all over southern California. Many of them do not live in Los Angeles but still make the trek to games through automobile. A system of “satellite” parking would be offered to those fans that make the trip from outside of LA. An example of this can already be seen at the Hollywood Bowl where concert goers from the greater LA region are shuttled in and out from pre determined locations (usually malls with large parking lots). One of the main reasons this is done is because the Hollywood Bowl cannot accommodate a large parking lot like other concert venues can. This would be a great option for Dodger fans that live far from the stadium and

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prefer a stress free way in getting there. The experience of going to the game to see your favorite team could start as soon as you get on these shuttles.

These new options to access the Ball Park are all the beginnings of something bigger for Elysian Park and Dodger Stadium. With public transportation options in place, space in the stadium’s parking lots can be freed in order to move the concept of the Ball Park forward.

Accessibility through transportation to the Ball Park is important because people need to get there easily in order to use the space, but what would they do once they got there? Going to see a Dodger game is an option that exists today and will continue to be in option, but the baseball season does not last all year long. The Ball Park needs to be a viable option for entertainment, as well as recreational activities throughout the year. The way people use and interact with the Ball Park is extremely important because the people are what give this space significance and value. Dodger Stadium and its parking lots are essentially an open slate that needs to respond to what the people of LA value. Elysian Park on the other hand, is a space that already offers some amenities and activities that need to be reevaluated and upgraded. Picnic areas walking trails, an arboretum, and a couple of little league baseball fields are mostly what can be found there today. These amenities are still valuable, but they cannot be the only thing going on if the Ball Park is to become the new nexus of LA. Besides a range in sports facilities and trails, a delicate integration of retail shops and entertainment based businesses will only strengthen the attraction to the Ball Park on a year around basis.

Combining traditional park space and entertainment based business makes for a convenient mix of options for people to enjoy, but can this space do more than just provide people with things to do? Los Angeles has passed the point where spaces of land are only used for singular functions. It is possible and should be necessary to allow the land that people live and play on, to perform other functions at the same time. One function that should be very important going into the future is the ecological function of cleaning water. An example of this can already be seen at Echo Park just west of Dodger Stadium. Echo Lake was recently drained and reengineered in order to collect and clean storm water runoff. Echo Park will still retain its qualities of recreation and leisure but also covertly collect and clean storm water. Issues of water are extremely important in Southern California where potable water is not plentiful. Dodger Stadium’s parking lots currently create close to 3 million gallons of water for every one inch of rain that falls. Most of that water is diverted into large drains and sent straight into the LA River untreated. This simply cannot continue to happen.

Eradicating the large parking lots at the stadium almost instantly makes that situation better.

The property at Dodger stadium provides unique opportunities that could help facilitate the treatment of water on site. Topography is the main ally that could help in this effort. Careful grading and diversion of runoff can collect in specific low points where it can slowly infiltrate into the ground water table. Water used from resident and business units could also be diverted and cleaned using new techniques in black water treatment.

Within this new development of the Ball Park, interesting opportunities in location arise. Several districts could be implemented, dictating a certain feel and experience through the different areas of the Ball Park. With the help of upgrades in programming and activities, Elysian Park can become the new urban forest where interesting activities can be found. Several districts within Dodger Stadium could also have unique characteristics to them. Concentrations of retail and entertainment businesses would likely be located where transportation corridors come into the site. The differences in topography on the Dodger Stadium site also provide interesting opportunities for structures or homes to be located on.

The Ball Park can provide a unique space for the future of Los Angeles. The recreational, entertainment, residential, and ecological aspects can be unique experiences themselves, but the hybridization of them and the interaction between them is truly a special thing. Nothing like this can currently be found in the city of Los Angeles and can prove as model for future developments within the city.

LOS ANGELES LAND AREA 299,949 acres

PARK SPACE 42,278 acres

1,805,833 without WALKABLE PARK ACCESS

13.1% PARKLAND

POPULATION 3,792,621

1,981,306 with WALKABLE PARK ACCESS

52%

PARK ACCESS

BOSTON LAND AREA 30,897 acres

PARK SPACE 4,908 acres

16,468 without WALKABLE PARK ACCESS

15.9% PARKLAND

POPULATION 617,594

598,055 with WALKABLE PARK ACCESS

97%

PARK ACCESS

NEW YORK LAND AREA 193,692 acres

PARK SPACE 38,201 acres

295,583 without WALKABLE PARK ACCESS

19.7% PARKLAND

POPULATION 8,175,133

7,856,935 with WALKABLE PARK ACCESS

96%

PARK ACCESS

SAN FRANCISCO LAND AREA 29,999 acres

PARK SPACE 5,384 acres

ANALYSIS - PARK POOR LA The term “park poor” is subjective depending on who you ask in Los Angeles, but the truth is that the city really is park poor in terms of accessibility. Compared to other major cities around the nation, Los Angeles ranks poorly in walking access (within half a mile) to its 42,278 acres of park space. There are various reasons for this, but among the biggest reasons is proximity of these spaces to each other. LA’s fragmented park system offers small spaces that are few and far between in certain areas while other areas of the city are flooded with large open spaces.

17,439 without WALKABLE PARK ACCESS

17.9% PARKLAND

POPULATION 805,235

784,324 with WALKABLE PARK ACCESS

98%

PARK ACCESS

BALL PARK A NALYSIS - PARK POOR LA + “M AROONED” S PACES

CURRENT PARKING LOT USAGE 10P

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ANALYSIS - “MAROONED”SPACES LA’s fragmented park system is not the only issue plaguing it. In one example, the local icon that is Dodger Stadium, is essentially an urban island that is used for a fraction of the year. The major league baseball season lasts close to six months, but of those six months, the stadium is occupied for about 81 days. That means that for almost two thirds of the year, Dodger Stadium and its enormous parking lots sit empty. More can be done with these spaces to avoid it from sitting empty for the majority of the year.

A hybridization of neighboring Elysian Park with Dodger Stadium could help with this endeavour.

Dodger Games Shopping / Eating

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Red Line Vermont/ Sunset Station

Echo Park Station

Sunset/ Elysian Parkway Station

Ball Park Station

Cornfields Station

Gold Line

THE DODGER BLUE LINE

Ball Park Station Underground

(Continues underground to Red Line at Sunset/Vermont)

ACCESSIBILITY - PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION As of today, accessibility into LA’s larger parks can be difficult.

Unless you live next to Elysian or Griffith Park, chances are that you will be driving to these parks if you wish to visit them.

Currently, there are no public bus lines that take you directly into Elysian Park or Dodger Stadium. The METRO’s gold line is close to this area, but not close enough. Steep topography and limited pedestrian access hinder most people from walking to the stadium of Elysian Park. One way this can be addressed (and also serve a greater community), is to implement a new METRO line that will connect the gold line with the red line. This creates opportunities for stops in and around Dodger Stadium as well as Elysian Park.

6.5% grade maximum

Cornfields Station On Grade

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BALL PARK ACCESSIBILITY - PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

INTERSTATE

5

BURBANK ARCADIA

GLENDALE

INTERSTATE

PASADENA

GLENDORA

210

RANCHO CUCAMONGA

SAN DIMAS CLAREMONT

INTERSTATE

WEST COVINA

405

SANTA MONICA

BEVERLY HILLS

SAN BERNARDINO

RIALTO FONTANA

COLTON

INTERSTATE

10

ONTARIO

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10 INTERSTATE

CULVER CITY

WALNUT

CHINO

15

CHINO HILLS MIRA LOMA

RIVERSIDE

INTERSTATE

110

LA HABRA INTERSTATE

GARDERIA

COMPTON

215

YORBA LINDA

WOODCREST

CORONA

FULLERTON LAKEWOOD TORRANCE

ANAHEIM CYPRESS INTERSTATE

5

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INTERSTATE

LONG BEACH

405

WESTMINSTER SANTA ANA

HUNTINGTON

IRVINE

“THE DODGER EXPERIENCE STARTS ON THE BUS”

Dodgers

While stuck in traffic, Dodger fans can start the game experience early in the bus with beer and other refreshments, snacks, and entertainment.

Cal Poly Pomona parking structure: 2,400 Stalls (example)

SATELLITE PARKING AND DODGER SHUTTLE SYSTEM Another way lessen the dependency of Dodger Stadium’s parking lots is to offer another mode of accessibility aside from a new METRO line. This alternate system would be geared toward Dodger fans who don’t necessarily live near the stadium. This system of “satellite parking” would make use of large parking lots or structures such as mall parking lots, that are closer to the fan’s home. Pre-selected regional locations would serve as an off site parking lot and pick up and drop off location for the fans.

CLAREMONT ONTARIO

POMONA CPP WALNUT

CHINO CHINO HILLS

Dodger Stadium

ON-SITE PARKING

PROXIMITY PARKING PUBLIC PARKING

PRIORITY PARKING

PRIOR REGISTRATION PARKING

PUBLIC ORIENTATED PARKING

On-site parking structures will serve important members of the Dodger Family as well as service seasonal ticket holders

Proximity parking will serve to accommodate ticket holders on game days and function as predetermined spots given alongside stadium seats.

Paid public parking can be found around the city and public transportation can be used to get to the stadium.

PARKING CIRCULATION

PARKING CONDITIONS AND STRATEGIES With new systems of public transportation in place, some of Dodger Stadium’s parking space can be offset, but not all of it.

In order to make greater use of space where parking spaces currently sit, large parking structures would have to be created.

To further maximize the usage of the current parking space.

Parking structures could essentially be created underground.

This would allow for a range uses that could be taking place above the parking structures.

Park 1 2 3 4 5 6

STANDARD MEASURE 170 ft.

PARKING STRUCTURE CAP

60 ft.

PARK ON TOP OF STRUCTURE

125 ft.

Parking structures surrounding the stadium are introduced under proposed park space, to accommodate for surrounding stadium uses and park programming.

Parking Structure

500 parking spaces

= 10,000 Dodger’s Parking

BALL PARK ECOLOGICAL PERFORMANCE

OPEN SPACE CONNECTIONS

161 ROSE HILL PARK

SILVER LAKE RESERVOIR

E LYSIAN PARK

ECHO PARK LAKE LA STATE HISTORIC PARK

LINCOLN PARK

VISTA HERMOSA PARK PIGGYBACK YARDS

GRAND PARK

PER PER RSHI SH H NG NG S ARE SQ SQU A AR

ECOLOGICAL PERFORMANCE

BALLPARK WATERSHEDS

LA’s fragmented park system not only makes it hard for people to visit these parks, but also the wildlife that use spaces as homes and temporary homes. Elysian Park’s size makes it a suitable facilitator of ecological opportunity. With a stronger ecological connection, open spaces in the proximity of Elysian Park can also facilitate some of this ecological opportunity (top image).

Taking a closer look at the watersheds in Elysian Park and Dodger Stadium, topography dictates where water runoff travels to. With modifications to topography at the stadium’s parking lots, there is a great opportunity to retain or even clean water.

This raises options with what can be done with the water on site.

CURRENT CONDITION OFF-SITE DRAINAGE

PROPOSED CONDITION ON-SITE DRAINAGE

HIGH POINTS

RESERVOIR

Elysian Park The ‘BallPark’ Hydrology Transportation Infrastructure Commercial

SOCIAL PERFORMANCE - BALL PARK PROGRAMS With the hybridization of Elysian Park and Dodger Stadium, a whole new set of programs and attractions can be implemented. Geared toward usage around the year, this new “Ball Park” has the potential to serve the various needs and tastes that encompass the city of Los Angeles. Variations of this space can already be found in the city but nowhere in metropolitan LA can you find a conglomeration of retail and recreational amenities that serve the city on a deeper social and ecological level. The Ball Park can function as the nexus that brings the city closer together and a model for what future development needs to be.

BALL PARK SOCIAL PERFORMANCE

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Recreation

Playgrounds

Soccer Fields

Tennis Courts

Trail Systems Walking Paths

Living

Seasonal / Event Space Picnic Areas Seasonal Water Retention/Treatment

Baseball Fields

Basketball Courts

Hiking Trails Camping Sites

Dog Parks Concert/Event Space

Bike Lanes

Vista / View Points Horse Trails

Trail Systems

Social Amenities

Pedestrian

Bus Transit

Vehicle

Train Transit

Residential Housing

Multi-Story Residential

Commercial

Institutional Educational

Dodger Stadium Attraction

LIFESTYLES

ZONING STRATEGY

DEVELOPMENT AREA

+ THE BALL PARK

+ ECO-VILLAGE

COMMERCIAL CORRIDORS

HILLSIDE HOMES

PARK TOWERS

BUILDING TYPOLOGIES - ZONING DEVELOPMENT In bringing development into the Dodger Stadium property, attention must be given to the location of certain elements.

Changes in topography, proximity to entrances, access to views, and proximity to the stadium are all factors in deciding what shape the development might take. After looking at these factors closely for the Ball Park, four typologies have formed.

Structure design in the new development will be informed by these four typologies.

LOCATION VIEWS ACCESSIBILITY

=

HYDROLOGY TOPOGRAPHY CORRIDORS

BALL PARK B UILDING TYPOLOGIES

ECO-VILLAGE ZONING LOCATION

HILLSIDE DEVELOPMENT BUILDING TYPOLOGIES

ZONING LOCATION

BUILDING TYPOLOGIES Residential Apartments with Private Greenroofs

Residential Lofts with Private Greenroofs

Public Facilities Resident Parking Underground Parking

COMMERCIAL CORRIDORS

PARK TOWERS

ZONING LOCATION

ZONING LOCATION

BUILDING TYPOLOGIES Residential Lofts with Green Courtyards

BUILDING TYPOLOGIES Multi-Level Mixed Use Residential

High Commercial

Commercial Amenities

Underground Parking Structures

Business Buildings

Institutional Parking Structures

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ECO-VILLAGE

HILLSIDE HOMES

COMMERCIAL CORRIDORS

PARK TOWERS

28 DU/A

22 DU/A

19 DU/A

90 DU/A

Dwelling Units Per Acre

Dwelling Units Per Acre

Dwelling Units Per Acre

Dwelling Units Per Acre

PERFORMANCE MEASURES Name: Iron Horse Lofts Location: San Francisco Setting: Urban Courtyards

Name: Rainier Vista Apartments Location: Columbia City, Seattle Setting: Urban

20

DU/A

Name: South Beach Neighborhood Location: San Francisco, California Setting: Urban

28

DU/A

85

DU/A

BALL PARK D ENSITY + L AND U SE

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LAND USE ZONING

LIFESTYLES

ECO-VILLAGE

COMMERCIAL CORRIDORS

HILLSIDE HOMES PARK TOWERS

LEGEND

DENSITY AND LAND USE

1-2 story single- family residential

With the principles developed by building typologies, the uses of these buildings, as well as the massing of them, further inform what it might feel like to be in these areas. The amount of people using these structures also dictate what the “lifestyle� might be. The difference in lifestyles is important because the Ball Park aims to facilitate the different needs of the people of Los Angeles.

2-4 story multifamily residential 2-4 story multifamily residential in combination with commercial and/or office use Multistory high commercial use 4+ story high multi-use residential Institutional and education facilities Dodger Stadium

CONCEPT SKETCHES

CIRCULATION PATTERN SKETCH

BALL PARK M ASTER PLAN D EVELOPMENT

DESIGN PROCESS

History Hydrology Topography Ecology Integrated Systems

SYSTEM INTEGRATION

FINAL CONCEPT SKETCH

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LEGEND

THE BALL PARK ILLUSTRATIVE In developing a master plan for the Ball Park, synthesizing our analysis of Elysian Park and Dodger Stadium, as well as our proposals for it, were highly important. It was also a priority to address current needs but also to develop ideas that would establish a lifestyle for the future. Many iterations of a master plan were drawn and hashed out in order to create a well informed and cohesive plan. Cues from hydrology and topography (which were important in our design) were used to develop a “language” that would be carried out through our design.

1. PARK AT THE PARK 2. CHAVEZ RAVINE MUSEUM 3. RETENTION BASIN 4. PARK OVERLOOK DECK 5. ECO-VILLAGE 6. ENTRY STADIUM PLAZA 7. COMMERCIAL CORRIDORS 8. HILLSIDE HOMES 9. PARK TOWERS 10. TOWER PARK 11. ECO-BOULEVARD CORRIDOR 12. PUBLIC TRANSIT HUB 13. LA STATE HISTORIC PARK 14. ELYSIAN PARK RECREATION FIELDS 15. ELYSIAN TRAIL CONNECTIONS

SCALE: NTS

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BALL PARK I LLUSTRATIVE PLAN

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Dodger Blue Line Transit Stops

P

Public / Stadium Parking

ACCESS ROADS AND STREETS The implementation of transportation infrastructure can be seen in the plan diagram above. Along with the “Dodger Blue” line and underground game day parking structures, a variation of street types can be seen. These street typologies vary according to the amount of traffic they are intended to hold, as well as the type of traffic they are intended to facilitate. This included variations in vehicular traffic as well as pedestrian traffic.

PARKWAY

PROMENADE

GREEN STREET

ECO-BOULEVARD

ECOLOGICAL CONNECTOR

SOCIAL CONNECTOR

MAJOR CONNECTOR

ACCESS CONNECTOR

-Pedestrian -Bike -Wildlife Habitat -Coastal Sage Scrub Landscape

-Pedestrian -Public Plaza -Open Space -Retail / Commercial

-Pedestrian -Public Plaza -Open Space -Retail / Commercial

-Pedestrian -Bike -Vehicular -Large Circulation Access

ACCESS ROADS

AND

BALL PARK H YDROLOGY

173

LEGEND Black water treatment removal of inorganic solids, breakdown of organic materials, and any impurities are removed.

Bio-purification removal of biological oxygen demand (B.O.D), total suspended solids (tss), and metals Sub-surface filtration filtration of sediments and pathogens Bio-purification continued removal of pollutants and heavy metals/ B.O.D/ T.S.S/nitrogen/ phosporus Sub-surface filtration Bio-purification Floating plants continued filtration and slow infiltration of soil

Directional flow of water

WAT E R T R E AT M E N T ST R AT EGY

HYDROLOGY Hydrology was an important factor in the design of the Ball Park.

In order to allow the Ball Park to function on a multi-systematic level, it was imperative for the hydrology of the project to do more than just drain the site. In our opinion, hydrology is a contributing factor in vegetation and habitat so draining the site like it is done today was not an option. The diagrams above show how water from our development (as well as storm water runoff) would contribute to a major element in our master plan, a retention pond. New and old technologies were implemented in order to treat and clean the water.

WASTE WATER TREATMENT REMOVAL OF INORGANIC SOLIDS, BREAKDOWN OF ORGANIC MATERIALS, AND ANY IMPURITIES ARE REMOVED.

I

WATER SETTLING ZONE

TIER 1 FLOATING AND EMERGENT PLANTS

TIER 2 SUBMERGED GROWTH PLANTS

TIER 3 FLOATING AND EMERGENT PLANTS

OUTLET ZONE

EMERGENT PLANTS

CLEANED WATER

ECO-VILLAGE ENLARGEMENT PU B L I C PA R KS PACE R AT I O G REEN S PACE

50 % B UILDING FOOTPRINT

50 %

LOCATION MAP

OPEN FORM The infrastructure will be directed toward pedestrian travel into open spaces and waterways through the open form that bleeds park into development.

B U I L D I N G SCA L E A N D ST R UCT U R E

LEGEND 1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

ELYSIAN PARK BOARD WALK MULTI-STORY ECO-LOFTS WATER CLEANSING CREEK COMMUNITY REC. CENTER MULTI-USE RESIDENTIAL TOP/ COMMERCIAL BOTTOM 7. ECO-BOULEVARD ENTRY 8. DODGER STADIUM 9. GRAND LAWN

SCALE: NTS

BALL PARK ECO -VILLAGE E NLARGEMENT 1

175 2

3

4

9

5

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6

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LIVING IN THE PARK

BALL PARK EYE-L EVEL PERSPECTIVE

177

COMMERCIAL CORRIDORS ENLARGEMENT

P U B L I C PA R KS PACE R AT I O

Green Space

35 % Building Footprint

65%

LOCATION MAP

SEMI-OPEN FORM

B U I L D I N G SCA L E A N D ST R UCT U R E

The semi-open form will allow green courtyards within building typology and have open space corridors that run in between.

BALL PARK COMMERCIAL CORRIDOR E NLARGEMENT 6

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3 1

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5

LEGEND 1. ENTRY PLAZA 2. MULTI-STORY COMMERCIAL 3. POCKET PARKS/ PLAZAS 4. PEDESTRIAN CORRIDOR 5. WATER CLEANSING CREEK 6. DODGERS STADIUM

SCALE: NTS

THE DODGER EXPERIENCE

BALL PARK EYE-L EVEL PERSPECTIVE

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HILLSIDE HOMES AND PARK TOWERS ENLARGEMENT

BUILDING SCALE AND STRUCTURE

BUILDING SCALE AND STRUCTURE

LOCATION MAP

PA R K TOW E R S

H I L LS I D E H O M ES

PUBLIC PARK-SPACE RATIO

PUBLIC PARK-SPACE RATIO

Green Space

Green Space

40 %

40 %

Building Footprint

Building Footprint

60 %

60 %

CENTRALIZED FORM

DISTRIBUTED FORM

To maintain open space to footprint ratio, the centralized form will allow park space to be located within dense residential development.

Infrastructural form will be designed for hillside development and dispersed to allow greenspace to flow through the topography.

H ILLSIDE H OMES

AND

BALL PARK PARK TOWERS E NLARGEMENT

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4

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2.

3.

4.

PEDESTRIAN CORRIDOR HILLSIDE HOMES PARK TOWERS TOWER PARK

SCALE: NTS

HILLSIDE CORRIDOR

BALL PARK EYE-L EVEL PERSPECTIVE

185

LEGEND

THE BALL PARK ENLARGEMENT

1. CHAVEZ RAVINE MUSEUM 2. RETENTION BASIN 3. PARK OVERLOOK DECK 4. BOARD WALK 5. WILDFLOWER MEADOWS 6. GRAND LAWN 7. RECREATION FIELDS 8. URBAN FOREST 9. DODGERS STADIUM

SCALE: NTS OPEN SPACE TYPOLOGY Sloped Topography Recreation / Sports-fields Open Park Space Elysian Park Trail Routes Dodgers Stadium Infrastructure

LOCATION MAP

O PE N S PACE + T R A I L SYST E M

BALL PARK THE BALL PARK E NLARGEMENT

1

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PLAY AND LEARN AT THE BALL PARK

BALL PARK EYE-L EVEL PERSPECTIVE

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DEVELOPMENT PHASING 1ST YEAR PHASING • • •

Start of revitalization of park programs at Elysian Park Strong emphasis on public transportation Implementation of Satellite Parking program

5-10 YEAR PHASING • • • • •

Full implementation of park programs at Elysian Park Construction of public underground parking structures Start of construction on “Dodger Blue” METRO line Close in on outer edges of parking lot Start of re-engineered transportation infrastructure

10-20 YEAR PHASING • • • •

Construction of “Chavez Ravine Museum” Full implementation of transportation infrastructure Implementation of open space and recreational fields Implementation of building infrastructure

30 YEAR PHASING •

Full implementation of the Ball Park

BALL PARK D EVELOPMENT PHASING

BALL PARK Joshua Leyva | Natalie Rowe | Giovanni Aguirre | HeeJae Lee

With a fragmented park system plaguing the social landscape of Los Angeles, it is time for the city to reclaim spaces that have been marooned for years and make them function and give back to the city.

Elysian Park and Dodger Stadium can team up and create a new “Ball Park� where innovations in accessibility, social performance, and ecological performance can create a new lifestyle to serve as a model, and guide the city into the future.

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LIVING IN THE MOMENT

BALL PARK EYE-L EVEL PERSPECTIVE

193

MAROONED NO MORE DODGER STADIUM: BRINGING THE STADIUM TO THE CITY AND THE CITY TO THE STADIUM

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