Santa Monica Municipal Airport (SMO), once the
legendary Douglas Aircraft Company and “Clover Field“ after WWI was recently announced to be turned into another airport theme park due to its negative impact on the surrounding neighbors. City of Santa Monica released the visioning re-purposing plan with extreme debates evoked.
Without asking fundamental questions we can never properly identify and evaluate the real potential behind this evolution. “What are the large sustainable issues that the city is facing?” ”What the additional park can offer us in terms of social/ environmental resilience?” “If it is possible that the SMO can be transformed into something that deals with social problem with great potential economic return?“ Various issues under large sustainable framework are targeted by studio and based on which the design strategies and possibilities unfold.
