Pan Pacific Park is a highly underutilized park within Los Angeles, California. The site sits below grade, creating an implied barrier between the site and its adjacent streets. Additionally, the edges that reach grade are physically walled off due to the backyards of local residences. This creates circulation and visual barriers between the site and its context, causing the site to feel unwelcoming and less used.
This project shatters Los Angeles’s well-known grid organization of the city to allow visual and physical connections between context and site. This “shattering” of the urban fabric will allow for a more provocative visual and spatial experience within the site by allowing it to remain below grade yet undulate in topography based on shattered pieces.
context analysis
*adjacency typologies done by team member, Jerry Aldrich
strategy + plan
