PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Located on the Pacific coast having most of the time warm sunny weather LA sounds like a dream city. Unfortunately it has another side of that paradise on the earth, some issues, which appear as a challenge, which are maybe not easy but possible to solve.
Being aware of unique historical style of the city with its beautiful Spanish architecture legacy, the improvement plan represents a long term conceptual idea, which doesn’t require to rebuild the city completely. It is possible to say that the city is a living organism and it is growing and changes over the time. So if the changes are inevitable why not to plan them ahead in the favor of the city.
The main idea of the plan is to reorganize the buildings structure around those historically important houses and to “move” all the business buildings and parking lots along the freeway.
PROBLEMS
pollution • traffic • lack of parks and outdoor spaces
There are not that many places on the earth, which has summer almost all the year around. And having such a beautiful weather most of the people are locked in their houses, in their offices and have to spend most of their time inside. It is a waste of a space.
SOLUTIONS
Less driving = less pollution
To solve the traffic problem is possible by redesigning the city dividing it by sections or in other words creating the set of blocks,
which are including most of the major business branches and potentially having space for the one needed in future. Including schools groceries and other essential organizations. In this case everyday routine travel will be a walking distance. People still can drive their car any where they want, but it wouldn’t be necessary to do it every day and it would be completely different kind of driving, more like traveling and leisured time. As it isn’t so exhausting to travel once a week or a month for a long distance when needed, compare to everyday 1+ hours driving.
I strongly believe that all residential houses should not be located next to freeways. That’s exactly why people are forced to be locked in their dwellings. In order to use space more rational I propose to locate next to the free way business buildings. That will help to solve at least two problems: first it will dramatically reduce the noise pollution from the freeway, serving as a sound barrier and second it will allow to leave the main transportation venues on its original place, without changing it, hiding it at the same time from the scenery and providing people with more comfortable and quite place to live.

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