Spring 2021 | Prof. John Southern | ARCH605b | USC School of Architecture | M.ARCH +2
Los Angeles, California
Project Team:
Brice Schiano
Lindsay Leon
Situated at the north end of the Crenshaw Corridor, at the intersection of the Crenshaw and Expo light rail lines, in an area and community with a noticeable deficit in parks and open public spaces, Filtered Medium is a Medical-Hive that serves as a health clinic, medical training hub, community center, and park. The project takes the traditional park and building relationship and forces an interaction between them; a conflation of one into the other.
The park landscape itself becomes a medium of thoroughfare and destination, filtering how people move across the site and transition from the corridor to the smaller scale of the domestic pastoral. Designed as a series of interlocking porous volumes that, allow light, air, and green space to filter through the building, the landscape displaces the more formal programs of the project to create new opportunities of interaction and networks between them.
Filtered Medium produces a space for exchange and interaction of the diverse communities at the intersection of urban and domestic. A place where the integration of architecture, landscape, and infrastructure create a new socially ecological public experience.
