MOMI - A 5th Year Thesis Project

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In my thesis paper, I explored the relevance of parks as tools to bring together people of all sorts of demographics to reconnect with nature. Those that I found to be most successful in that regard were parks that were openly accessible on all fronts and established opportunities for visitors to traverse through bundled landscape clusters. In this studio, we explored radical pedestrianism through pyscho-geographic wanderings around Hollywood Blvd. I discovered a significant lack of green space on our given site, save for a small un-inviting gated “park” surrounded by a tall metal fence.
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June 23, 2011
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Two significant natural hazards that occur on the site are extreme heat and flooding. Some reservoirs only hold 21% of their capacity and are not equipped to react fast enough to rainfall. In 2009 L.A. saved 30 million gallons of water due to new rationing - but instead, we should fix issues such as reservoir collection.

 
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MOMI, a museum dedicated to the moving image showcases the history of film in L.A. underground. The roofpark above the exhibition galleries was designed to follow the generative flows of the spaces below and is irrigated through a filtration system that recycles reclaimed gray water stored in tanks below the museum.