City of Los Angeles – Infrastucture Competition Winner
In response to this historic opportunity, the SCIFI (Southern California Institute for Future Initiatives) program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and The Architect’s Newspaper sponsored an open ideas competition for architects, engineers, urban planners and students to propose new ideas for LA County’s transit infrastructure.
The competition encouraged entrants to develop solutions that dramatically rethink the relationship between transit systems, public space and urban redevelopment. Competitors were further encouraged to work within the parameters of LA County Ballot Measure R. Their entries had to focus on specific rail extension projects and also take a look at larger-scale, inter-related transit planning challenges.
The competition jury included Thom Mayne, Principal and Founder of Morphosis Architects, Professor, UCLA, Aspet Davidian, Director, Project Engineering Facilities, Metro, Neil Denari, Professor, UCLA, Principal, Neil M. Denari Architects, Gail Goldberg, Director of Planning, City of Los Angeles, Roland Genick, Urban Designer, Exposition Line, Cecilia V. Estolano, CEO CRA/LA- Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles, Eric Owen Moss, Director, SCI-Arc, Principal and Founder of Eric Owen Moss Architects, and Geoff Wardle, Director, Advanced Mobility Research, Art Center College of Design.
Más is regional high-speed rail for Los Angeles with a landscape to match. It diversifies the communities in the built environment, making travel less necessary, easier and more predictable, and bypassing roadway congestion through a new raised infrastructure. A partnership between the public and private sectors creates varied opportunities for organic development.
1st Prize: Más Transit, Joshua G. Stein, Jacob M. Brostoff, Jaclyn Thomforde, Aaron Whelton http://www.radical-craft.com
Travel times improve over time with the addition of new trains. Más also links local and inter-regional commuting; providing frequent service that will sync up with the California High Speed Rail network. San Diego via más is less than an hour away, including transfer times; San Francisco is less than three hours away.
Source: Bustler
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