CIENEGA TREATMENT CENTER Cienega Treatment center responds to the pre-existing urban conditions of los angeles in a variety of ways. water quality, and the health and wellbeing of its citizens, are the primary focuses of CTC. these conditions are remedied with the integration of a constructed wetland system and a detoxification system About 75% of the stormwater ends up flowing down the Los Angeles canals in a typical rainstorm and is lost to Santa Monica Bay and Long Beach Harbor. In Los Angeles, the homeless population has jumped 12% in the last 2 years. 44,000 homeless people were tallied in January 2015, up from more than 39,000 in 2013.
Southern California has long been an area where drug abuse and addiction has flourished, due to its location near the usmexico border. heroin • 2002 - 2013: • 2002 - 2013: •
2013:
heroin use increased 63% overdose deaths increased 300% 517,000 people reported that they had used heroin in the last year, a 150% increase from 2007.
perscription • 2014:
23,500 overdose deaths
meth • 2009-2014:
meth seizures increased 300%
stage 1: canal
stage 2: cistern storage
greywater ↓ GREYWATER storage tank
stage 3: baffle system
greywater storage tank ↓ Unit planter boxes
stage 4: limestone
stage 5: Aquaponics
Unit planter boxes ↓ S.O.A.P. PANELS
S.O.A.P. Panels ↓ hot water storage
stage 6: Aquaponics
Hot water storage ↓ radiant heating floor coils
stage 7: oyster
RADIANT HEATING FLOOR COILS ↓ STORAGE TANK
stage 8: Retention
storage tank ↓ VEGETATION WALL
ADE 522: Spring 2017 Advanced Architectural Studio II
Students: Zachary Howser, Sami Nabaty, Chris Woosley Instructor: Thomas Hartman