PROFESSOR

Our societal “flush it and forget it” mentality simply does not work in an era defined by having either too much or too little water.

How we design 21st century infrastructures holds a foundational role in reimaging “waste”water.

The studio's site occupies the cross-section of The Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant, Vista Del Mar, The Dockweiler State Beach and the Pacific Ocean, just south of LAX. Onsite, automobile, wastewater, recreation and dune preservation infrastructure have hard boundaries, running North-South down the Pacific coast. Partipants were asked to interrogate the tendency to separate and hide infrastructure through proposing a set of inside-out, hybridized structures, programs and processes that reframe Angelenos relationship to and experience of wastewater. The collection of proposals suggest that the delights of recreation combined with infrastructal networks of care offers a reevaluation 'waste'water towards a healthier and more accessible future for water on our planet.