TRANSIENT NEIGHBOR ZEYNEP + ALEXIS
ARTS DISTRICT
BROADWAY
INSERTED PRIVATE PARKING
SIDEWALK PARKING
BEVERLY CENTER / BEVERLY GROVE
BEVERLY CENTER / BEVERLY GROVE
BEVERLY CENTER / BEVERLY GLOVE
MIRACLE MILE / FAIRFAX
KOREATOWN
UNDER THE JUNCTION
HANCOCK PARK
WINDSOR SQUARE
WESTLAKE
GEOGRAPH Y // STATISTICS
VENICE
SKID ROW
DOWNTOWN 37 VIOLENT / 80 PROPERTY
WESTLAKE 10 VIOLENT / 48 PROPERTY
WINDSOR SQ.
HANCOCK PARK
1 VIOLENT / 7 PROPERTY
3 VIOLENT / 4 PROPERTY
CRIME RATES 6 MONTH DATA + LAST WEEK
KOREATOWN 9 VIOLENT / 55 PROPERTY
FAIRFAX
BEVERLY GROVE
2 VIOLENT / 11 PROPERTY
5 VIOLENT / 22 PROPERTY
MOST DOM. POP. MEDIAN INCOME EDUCATION (4) ANCESTRY
DOWNTOWN
WESTLAKE
KOREATOWN
WINDSOR SQ. HANCOCK PARK
IMMIGRATION
FAIRFAX
BEVERLY GROVE
36.7 %LATINO 21% ASIAN 22% BLACK
73.4 % LATINO
53.5 % LATINO 32% ASIAN
42% ASIAN 38% WHITE
71% WHITE
84.7 % WHITE
82 % WHITE
15,003$
26,757$
30,558$
61,767$
85,277$
65,938$
63,039$
18%
12%
21%
46%
56%
55%
50%
23% MEX 3.6% KOR
35% MEX 6% GUAT
22% MEX 21% KOR
33% KOR 5% GER
6% IRISH 6% RUSSIAN
8% RUS 6.5% IRISH
10% RUS 8.5% IRAN
44% FOREIGN BORN
68% FOREIGN BORN
68% FOREIGN BORN
45% FOREIGN BORN
26% FOREIGN BORN
23% FOREIGN BORN
37% FOREIGN BORN
45% MEX 17% KOR
37% MEX 17% EL SALVADOR
29% KOR 21% MEX
57% MEX 9% PHILIPPINES
18% KOR 7% PHILIPPINES
9% UKRAINE 8% MEX
20% IRAN 7.4% POLLAND
HOMELESS POPULATION DENSITY
MEDIAN INCOME PER YEAR
ETHICITY PERCENTAGES OF NEIGHBO
LATINO
50
LATINO
50
DT
WL
NEIGHBORHOODS
KT
WSQ.
HP
F
BG
WEST
ASIAN
BLACK ASIAN
PERCENTAGE
1000 DOLLARS
LATINO
DT
WL
NEIGHBORHOODS
KT
WSQ
EDUCATION LEVEL (4 DEGREE)
ORHOODS
WHITE
WHITE
50
WHITE HOMELESNESS LEVEL
Q.
PERCENTAGE
ASIAN WHITE
HP
F
BG
WEST
DT
WL
NEIGHBORHOODS
KT
WSQ.
HP
F
BG
WEST
LOCATION OF HOMELESS
Lazy Drug Addicts Beggers Violent Drunks Criminals Uneducated Scary Crazy Dirty Choice Waste Stink Wrecked Junkies Addicts Desperate Irresponsible Dangerous Hungry Rough Lazy Drug Addicts Beggers Violent Drunks Criminals Uneducated Scary Crazy Dirty Choice Waste Stink Wrecked Junkies Addicts Desperate Irresponsible Dangerous Hungry Rough Lazy Drug Addicts Beggers Violent Drunks Criminals Uneducated Scary Crazy Dirty Choice Waste Stink Wrecked Junkies Addicts Desperate Irresponsible Dangerous Hungry Rough Lazy Drug Addicts Beggers Violent Drunks Criminals Uneducated Scary Crazy Dirty Choice Waste Stink Wrecked Junkies Addicts Desperate Irresponsible Dangerous Hungry Rough Lazy Drug Addicts Beggers Violent Drunks Criminals Uneducated Scary Crazy Dirty Choice Waste Stink Wrecked Junkies Addicts Desperate Irresponsible Dangerous Hungry Rough Lazy Drug Addicts Beggers Violent Drunks Criminals Uneducated Scary Crazy Dirty Choice Waste Stink Wrecked Junkies Addicts Desperate Irresponsible Dangerous Hungry Rough Lazy Drug Addicts Beggers Violent Drunks Criminals Uneducated Scary Crazy Dirty Choice Waste Stink Wrecked Junkies Addicts Desperate Irresponsible Dangerous Hungry Rough Lazy Drug Addicts Beggers Violent Drunks Criminals Uneducated Scary Crazy THE STIGMA AGAINST HOMELESSNESS Dirty Choice Waste Stink Wrecked Junkies Addicts Desperate Irresponsible Dangerous Hungry Rough Lazy Drug Addicts Beggers Violent Drunks Criminals Uneducated Scary Crazy Dirty Choice Waste Stink Wrecked Junkies Addicts Desperate Irresponsible Dangerous Hungry Rough Lazy Drug Addicts Beggers Violent Drunks Criminals Uneducated Scary Crazy Dirty Choice Waste Stink Wrecked Junkies Addicts Desperate Irresponsible Dangerous Hungry Rough Lazy Drug Addicts Beggers Violent Drunks Criminals Uneducated Scary Crazy Dirty Choice Waste Stink Wrecked Junkies Addicts Desperate Irresponsible Dangerous Hungry Rough Lazy Drug Addicts Beggers Violent Drunks Criminals Uneducated Scary Crazy Dirty Choice Waste Stink Wrecked Junkies Addicts Desperate Irresponsible Dangerous Hungry Rough Lazy Drug Addicts Beggers Violent Drunks Criminals Uneducated Scary Crazy Dirty Choice Waste Stink Wrecked Junkies Addicts Desperate Irresponsible Dangerous Hungry Rough Lazy Drug Addicts Beggers Violent Drunks Criminals Uneducated Scary Crazy Dirty Choice Waste Stink Wrecked Junkies Addicts Desperate Irresponsible Dangerous Hungry Rough Lazy Drug Addicts Beggers Violent Drunks Criminals Uneducated Scary Crazy Dirty Choice Waste Stink Wrecked Junkies Addicts Desperate Irresponsible
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“Homeless people are an afterthought, we still look at them like ok you aren’t a person”
THE CLEANLINESS OF THE STEETS OF L.A. Clean
Dirty
DEMOGRAPHIC OF HOMELESS IN L.A. Vetrans Chronically Homeleess Substance Abuse Mental Illness Domestic Violence Experience Physical Diability
11% 31% 24% 32% 21% 19%
ETHNICITIES OF HOMELESS IN L.A. African American Hispanic/Latino White/ Caucasian Native American Asaian/ PaciďŹ c Islander Native Hawaiian Multi-Racial/Other
47% 21% 22% 3% 2% 1% 4%
Los Angeles is the third most homeless city in the world. 70% of the more than 40,000 homeless people in Los Angeles are unsheltered, as a whole this is the highest rate of an unsheltered population in the nation.
WHY PEOPLE BECOME HOMELESS Life Altering Event Loss of Loved One Job Loss Divorce Family disputes Fighting for Disabilities
Domestic Violence Vetran Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Decline in Public Assistance Depression Rejection of Material Wealth
“I regret that I needed to steal just to survive”
“Am I really going to give up because I feel like I lost everything?”
“Maybe seeing yourself as “not homeless” is a good thing. When you stop believing that your current state is anything but temporary, the going gets a lot tougher”
“Imagine being treated like less than a human and because of this you act less than your worth”
“I see the homelessness everywhere and it became so visible it turned invisible.”
“Skid row…the first couple times you see it, it’s kind of horrifying”
HOW THE HOMELESS SURVIVE
Outreach programs throughout LA provide food at dierent times of day for the homeless in the area. Some one these acengies are religiously driven while others are just public outreach programs.
Joining a gym gives the homeless a place to shower and stay clean. Gyms that are open around the clock also give them a safe place to legally be. One of the biggest concerns of the homeless is staying safe.
Public libraries provide warmth in the winter, air conditioning in the summer, and free public bathrooms all year long. They are open to the public and no one will generally bother a homeless guy who is sitting in the corner reading a book. There are computers available to be used for free in job searches or checking emails.
MYTHS ABOUT HOMELESSNESS
1. Homeless People Don’t Work - 45% of the homeless population have worked in the last 30 days 2. All homeless people have substance abuse problems - 1 in 4 homeless have had a substance abuse problem in their past 3. Homeless people are older - 1 in 4 homless people are younger than 25 4. Homeless people are uneducated - 83% of homeless have a high school education - 40% of homeless have a degree or training from a trade school - 1 in 10 Cal Tech students are homeless 5. Homeless are dirty - 62% of homeless people have access to a shower through public eorts or gym memberships
WHERE ARE THE BOUNDARIES OF THE HOMELESS “HOME”?
BOUNDARIES OF THE “HOME” HOMELESS SINGLE FAMILY
OUTREACH CENTER : KITCHEN MEALS & FOOD PANTRY
GYM:
BATHROOM SHOWER
TENT: BEDROOM
WHAT OTHER TRANSIENT POPUL
LATIONS EXIST WITHIN L.A. ?
THE COMMUTER
7:00 AM
7:30 AM
8:30 AM
9:00 AM
8:00 AM
OVERLAY
THE STUDENT
University
THE VISITOR
Air BNB Hotel
THE CONSUMER
Storefront
THE TEMPORAL STRUCTURE
1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
WHO IS YOUR NEIGHBOR?
ARE SEMI- TRANSIENT POPULATIONS STILL YOUR NEIGHBOR?
RECONNECTING LA
WHAT OPPURTUNITIES DOES THE SIDEWALK HAVE IN A CITY WHERE CAR CULTURE DOMINATES? IS THIS PUBLIC SPACE CURRENTLY RELEVANT?
DEFINITION OF SIDEWALK a paved path for pedestrians at the side of a street WHAT KIND OF SIDEWALK WOULD UNLEASH ITS POTENTIAL AS A PUBLIC SPACE? H O W W O U L D I T O P E R A T E A N D W H A T M I G H T I T L O O K L I K E?
CURRENT ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS a space for congregation
temporary markets
extention of a cafe or resturant
street performance
bicycle parking
physical connector of multiple buildings
location of homeless tents
locations of rest for city dwellers
Mechanical Moving Sidewalks of Paris 1900
“More significantly, because of the way that this network of concrete spreads its tentacles to reach people in many parts of the city, drawing them into intimate configurations, sidewalks have the potentional to be a remarkable democratizing space.” - Annette Miae Kim, Sidewalk City
“The sidewalk must have users on it fairly continuously, both to add to the number of effective eyes on the street and to induce the people in buildings along the street to watch the sidewalks in sufficient numbers. Nobody enjoys sitting on a stoop or looking out a window at an empty street. Almost nobody does such a thing. Large numbers of people entertain themselves, off and on, by watching street activity.” -Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
HOW CAN WE RECONNECT SEVERED NEIGHBORHOODS USING UNDER UTILIZED SPACES IN THE CITY FROM A RESULT OF URBAN SPRAWL (I.E. THE SIDEWALK, OPEN LOTS, ETC.) WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY PROVIDING A SPACE AND SERVICES FOR TRANSIENT POPULATIONS?
THE SIDEWALK AS A SITE THE SIDEWALK COULD BE transient housing : to allow both homeless and other temporal populations such as students, vistors for the olympics and tourists a space to stay community center : to speak to needs of the specific communities it interacts with ethnic food vendor : to express and spread ethnic ties throughout a diverse city community board meeting space : to allow a space for “neighbors” to make decisions mental health institute: to provide a save space for those affected by mental disabilities where services are lacking parking center: to allow the occupant to leave the car and interact with the city on a more pedestrian friendly and therefore personal level moving horizontal plane: to make moving from point A to point B faster in the spread out city like L.A. outreach and education center: to provide for those who otherwise would not have access to services to make their situation different and move themselves up in society
ARTIST GREGORY KLOEHN
DESIGNING SHELTERS FOR THE HOMELESS
WHAT KIND OF ORGANIZING STRATEGIES COULD BE USED?
PRECEDENT // COMBINATORY URBANISM THE COMP LEX BEHAVIOR OF COLLECTIVE FORM
TOWER //
TERRORISM HAS JUST INAUGURATED ANTICITIES STRATEGY. THIS MEANS THAT ALL TOWERS TODAY ARE THREATENED. INSTEAD OF BEING A PLACE OF DOMINION, AS DUNGEONS OF THE PAST, THE TOWER HAS BECOME A PLACE OF WEAKNESS - P A U L V I R I L I O
COMBINATORY URBANISM AS A NEW GENERATING PARADIGM
LANDFORMS, WATERFORMS, BUILTFORMS, PROGRAM AND INFRASTRUCTURE COLLUDE TO PRODUCE HYBRID FORMS THAT ARE NO LONGER OPPOSITIONAL OR AUTONOMOUS; EVERYTHING IS NOW SOME SORT OF TYPOLOGICAL MUTT.
WHILE STRUCTURE IS INHERENTLY DICTATED BY THE NEEDS OF SPACE AS IT UNFOLDS OVER TIME, IT IS MORE COMFORTABLE ACKNOWLEDGING - IN BOTH ORGANIZATIONAL AND FORMAL TERMS - THAT THINGS WILL CHANGE, MORPH, GROW AND EVOLVE WITH PASSING TIME. COMBINATORIAL FORMS DEMONSTRATES A GEOMETRIC IMPURITY, NOTABLY ASYMMETRICAL, AS A FORMAL RESPONSE TO THE IRRESOLUTION AND UNPREDICTABILITY OF THE MULTUIPLE SYSTEMS SIMULTANEOUSLY... EMBED INTO EACH OTHER.
A TAXONOMY OF MORPHOLOGIES
BARS
FORM: LARGE HORIZONTAL VOLUME SIGNIFIES: COMPLEX ADJACENCIES PROGRAM: OFFICE - EDUCATIONAL
FLOATERS
FORM: STRUCTURES ON WATER SIGNIFIES: LEISURE PROGRAM: BEACH - BOATHOUSE - SHOPS - CAFES
PASS AGES
FORM: SOLID OR VOID DIRECTIONAL VOLUMETRIC LINES SIGNIFIES: LINKAGES - CONNECTIONS PROGRAM: BRIDGES - VIEWSCAPES
RE ESTABLISHING URBAN LINKS
Finding new ways for pedestrian circulation, creating different levels of interaction.
URBAN CANYON
Rather than sink instrastructure beneath layers of asphalt, the lines of connection are revelaed through an urban canyon.
HOW DO WE SUSTAIN AN ACTIVE COMMUNE FOR EVERYONE ?
PROGRAM: NOT CORPORATE BUSINESS HIGH RISE BUILDINGS > PARKING