Please join us on Saturday March 16th, 2024 for an in-person ASLA SoCal Emerging Professional Meet-Up and Site Tour of Isla Intersections and the Annenberg Paseo with Agency Artifact.
Registration (and a hard hat) are required, and limited to 20 emerging professional ASLA members (Student ASLA, Associate ASLA, and emerging ASLA members) so make sure to register soon to reserve your spot! Non-members, and non-emerging professionals are kindly asked to not register for this event (membership will be verified).
Our site walk and project tour will be led by Christopher Esteban Torres, Founding Principal of landscape architecture firm Agency Artifact, along with members of the Agency Artifact team, and the project’s developer Holos Communities. Isla de Los Angeles Housing and Annenberg Paseo, is the first ‘shared street’ built in the City of Los Angeles. The project will serve as a model of how to redesign streets across the city. The streetscape redesign is in conjunction with a transformative new permanent supportive housing development that reinvests in South Los Angeles and builds community at one of the busiest freeway intersections in the world (the 110 FWY and 105 FWY interchange). The project is transforming a city-owned property at 283 W. Imperial Highway, providing apartments for individuals who have experienced homelessness (designed by LOHA/Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects). The landscape creates a ‘living lung’ forest with over 50 trees being planted to create a filter that will sequester toxins from the freeway. A series of pocket parks, gardens and plazas create a new pedestrian oriented network of open spaces for the building residents and surrounding community.
Please arrive on time – the site tour will start promptly at 10am!
Street Parking is available in the surrounding area. The project is located at the Intersection of Broadway + W Imperial Hwy, Los Angeles, CA (283 W Imperial Hwy, Los Angeles, CA 90061).
