Flow begins as an infrastructural armature, giving rise to dense vertical habitation. This common hybrid infrastructure of vascular networks will emerge in alignment with the existing stormwater, transportation, power and sewage networks, with subterranean networks of tunnels serving as both conduits and water storage in impermeable and contaminated zones. Flow will serve to process human and industrial waste through mechanical and natural filtration, and then bank water into aquifers. It will also serve to convey materials, goods, and people through integrated tubular networks that will exist both above and below ground. Strategic integration with a global subterranean high speed rail network allows L.A. to maintain and expand its industrial base while becoming a vibrant employee outpost for a globally mobile workforce. Fuzz represents the vast areas of land that will be needed to capture, detain, treat, and infiltrate stormwater, as well as productive regions for energy generation and agriculture. A mycorrhizal inoculation campaign will be deployed to remediate soil, eliminate decaying urban fabric and act as a gateway species for the emergence of productive landscapes such as; reservoirs and injection galleries, agricultural fields, algal energy generation fields, waste treatment fields, and aquaculture zones. Focus represents the concentration of populations along bundled flow networks. Horizontal geographies of low density sprawl and individualized transportation dependency will be supplanted by vertical and subterranean collective zero-waste regions. A meta- bolic, ‘no-waste’ urbanism will capture, mine, and reuse all available resources. These new architectures will also include vertical agriculture, wind harnessing, solar towers, and photosynthetic energy generation. The southern and western portions of the arma- ture will primarily serve as the locus for energy generation through off shore wave and tide power systems, and desalination. The northern extents will primarily function in large scale water capture, treatment, and storage. LOCAL WATER UTILIZED (BILLIONS OF GALLONS) NON-RESIDENTS (MILLIONS) ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT (HECTARES PER INDIVIDUAL) IMPORTED WATER UTILIZED (BILLIONS OF GALLONS) MASS TRANSIT NETWORK (MILES) RESIDENTS (MILLIONS) 8.4 200B 10M 50B 74 6.1 8M 100B 150 50B 4 6M 180B 300 0B 2.3 4.5M 200B 500 600 220B 1.8 3.5M DESALINATION PLANT WATER MAIN IMPORTED WATER SOURCE DEBRIS + INFILTRATION BASIN WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY WASTE WATER LEGEND SEWER MAINS SEWERSHED BOUNDARY FREEWAYS TRANSPORT GEOLOGY ARTERIALS RAIL MAJOR FAULTLINES OVERLOADED + UNDERFUNDED This proposal asserts that infrastructural investment should lead to a reformulation and simplification of the entire transit system, rather than discrete inter- ventions. Termed by some “a managed fantasy”, Los Angeles is a mirage. It is defined and sustained by it’s aging infrastructural legacy: freeways, channel- ized water networks, power grids, and sewage. These networks have grown horizontally, in response to and in anticipation of human land use. They under- pin a vast landscape of sprawling enclaves served by an incessant frenzy of individualized transportation. Yet after decades of relative climatic and geologi- cal stability, cheap reliable energy input, and resources imported from distant sources, the fate of this experiment is increasingly uncertain. The gathering forces of resource scarcity, global warming, sea level rise, economic destabilization will all serve to radically alter its future modes of transport and develop- ment patterns. In the face of these challenges, Los Angeles is placed in a unique moment of opportunity—with a chance to assert its resiliency by radically altering its modes of infrastructural, not as a measure of remedial planning, but as a matter of survival. It must inoculate, desalinate, articulate, and abandon. Predicated on three symbiotic constructs, Flow, Focus, and Fuzz, this exhibit outlines a possible scenario for Los Angeles over the course of the 21st cen- tury. Taken together, they comprise a mutually supportive metabolism that responds to and embraces regional pressures as a catalyst for new land uses, new economies, new forms of transportation, and new modes of urbanism. Recognizing the vital role that mobility, water, and sewage will play Los Angeles' future, it must begin investment in a core armature of new bundled infrastructures which will allow the city to survive impending peak water/peak oil. The city must reorganize along the matrices of transportation, water and sewarshed networks, and grow infrastructural tentacles out into the world to ship and receive.. Let the streets fall apart! Lets mine them for valuable minerals and petrochemicals... LAX PORT OF LOS ANGELES The continuing forces of economic and seismic instability diminish L.A.’s ability to support its periphery, resulting in the redistribution of many urban populations within zones of existing infrastructural confluence (primary nodes). No longer obsessively maintained, abandoned enclaves begin to succumb to an inevitable process of succession, urban mining, and desertification. AMID THE RUBBLE In an effort to abate the encroaching desert and in anticipa- tion of future land uses, L.A.’s already deteriorating interstitial enclaves are strategically inoculated with the spores of vora- cious fungal strains, which thrive on the wood cellulose of aging structures, decomposing the acres of single-family homes to make way for future operative landscapes. EAT ME INTERSTATE + NATIONAL HIGH SPEED RAIL FLOW PRIME: INFRASTRUCTURAL ARMATURE FOCUS ONE: PRIMARY FOCAL NODE FUZZ ONE: AQUACULTURE ZONE FUZZ TWO: WAVE ENERGY GENERATION MANIFOLD FUZZ FIVE: TRANSITIONAL MYCELIAL MATT FUZZ SIX: OPERATIVE LANDSCAPE FOCUS 3: WASTE + WATER DISTRIBUTION FUZZ FIVE: TRANSITIONAL MYCELIAL MATT FUZZ SIX: OPERATIVE LANDSCAPE FOCUS 2: MYCORRHYZAL OUTPOST FUZZ FOUR: DRYLANDS PACIFIC FREIGHT+PASSENGER TUNNEL CENTRAL + SOUTH AMERICAN HIGH SPEED RAIL PACIFIC FREIGHT+PASSENGER TUNNEL CENTRAL + SOUTH AMERICAN HIGH SPEED RAIL FUZZ THREE: MYCORRHYZAL PLATFORM TRANSPORTATION WASTE WATER ENERGY FRESHWATER STORAGE SECURITY ALGAL FIELDS SOLAR/ WIND ENERGY PRODUCTION DRYLAND AGRICULTURE BIOMASS PRODUCTION MINING SOLID WASTE PROCESSING HABITAT HABITATION HABITAT FUZZ SOLAR CHIMNEY TOWER HABITATION VERTICAL AGRICULTURE FLOW FOCUS ALGAL FIELDS WIND ENERGY PRODUCTION DRYLAND AGRICULTURE BIOMASS PRODUCTION URBAN MINING SOLID WASTE PROCESSING SUCCESSION HABITAT WATER RESERVOIR GROUNDWATER INJECTION MICHO HABITATION SOLAR ARRAY FIELDS MINERAL MINING NUCLEAR ENERGY AQUACULTURE FUZZ FRINGE THE ALAMEDA CORRIDOR PORT OF LA LAX 101 405 5 5 5 ALAMEDA CORRIDOR EAST 710 110 405 10 10 ROADS RAIL FREEWAYS SANTA MONICA MOUNTAINS HYPERION TILLMAN BURBANK SANTA SUSANA MOUNTAINS SAN GABRIEL MOUNTAINS SEWERSHED WATERSHED LOS ANGELES RIVER 2135 km2 DOWNTOWN LA LOCAL AREA PLAN #2 MODE 4 MODE 3 MODE 2 MODE 1 INFRASTRUCTURAL ARMATURE T 0 THE AGE OF WATER THE AGE OF WASTE THE AGE OF SPORES THE AGE OF ENERGY THE AGE OF MOVEMENT T 1 T 2 T 3 T 4 STATE HIGH SPEED RAIL CONSTRUCTION STATE WATER CONFICTS RESULT IN 48% REDUCTION IN IMPORTS STATE WATER CONFICTS RESULT IN 48% REDUCTION IN WATER IMPORTS PORT OF LOS ANGELES RECEDES INLAND .5 M SEA LEVEL RISE COASTAL DESALINATION PLANTS EXPAND WAVE ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE CONSTRUCTION BEGINS COASTAL WAVE ENERGY PLANTS EXPAND COASTAL WAVE ENERGY GENERATION PLANTS ONLINE OFFSHORE AQUACULTURE ZONES ESTABLISHED MYCORRHIZAL PLATFORMS ESTABLISHED DESERTIFICATION BEGINS MYCOREMEDIATION ADVANCES OPERATIVE LANDSCAPES EMERGE OPERATIVE LANDSCAPES EXPAND 0% ENERGY IMPORTS 20% ENERGY EXPORTS 20% ENERGY IMPORTS 70% ENERGY IMPORTS SEISMIC INSTABILITY STRESSES AGING INFRASTRUCTURE INTERNATIONAL HIGH SPEED RAIL ESTABLISHED SECONDARY FOCAL NODES ESTABLISHED SECONDARY FOCAL NODES MATURE PRIMARY FOCAL NODES MATURE PRIMARY FOCAL NODES ESTABLISHED TACTICAL ABANDOMENT OF AGING INFRASTRUCURES ESTABLISHMENT OF FLOW PRIME INFRASTRUCTURAL ARMATURE TERTIARY FOCAL NODES ESTABLISHED AERIAL TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS EMERGE SUBTERRANEAN INFRASTRUCTURAL NETWORKS DENSIFY SOLAR, WIND ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE EXPANDS PRIMARY SOLAR, WIND ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE ESTABLISHED VITAL INFRASTRUCTURAL NETWORKS ENHANCED AQUACULTURE ZONES EXPAND PRIMARY DESALINATION PLANTS ONLINE NATIONAL HIGH SPEED RAIL NETWORK CONSTRUCTION STATE HIGH SPEED RAIL COMPLETED NATIONAL HIGH SPEED RIAL COMPLETED AQUACULTURE ZONES EXPAND DESALINATION FLOW GEOTHERMAL AQUACULTURE WAVE POWER GENERATION SOLAR FARM WIND FARM ENERGY PATH NYC UNDERGROUND WATER STORAGE SOLID WASTE Operating within the Flow and a key component of the bundled infrastructure, mode one is a high speed Maglev rail network that allows for movement across and between large subareas of urban regions. _ high density population _ medium density population _ low density population _ scavengers / drifters / nomads An offshoot from the Flow network, Mode 2 provides for movement within the larger subareas bound by the Flow through an elevated tram system. Mode 2 also serves through traffic but provides more direct access to abutting land uses than the Flow. Mode 3 provides for movement within smaller areas which are often definable neighborhoods and which may be bound by modes 1 and 2. The typology of vehicles within mode 3 operate on the surface and include personal and public rapid tranist. At the extremities of the infrastructural armature, mined abandoned enclaves become desolate no mans land awaiting absorption into the flow or inoculation.