As a human race, we began as hunters and gathers, roaming the world in search of food. With the discovery of grain, we came the ability to store grain in large quantities, allowing for permanent settlements to be possible. Agriculture gave life to cities. However, the spirit of celebrations in food in the ancient city was lost in the modern world.

 

 

作为人类，我们从采猎开始，漫游世界寻找食物。随着谷物的发现，我们能够大量储存谷物，使定居成为了可能。农业赋予了城市生命。然而，古代在食物庆典中的精神在现代社会中却消失了。

 

01

BACKGROUND

任务背景

 

 

The current food practice in Los Angeles is problematic. It is one of the places where people rely heavily on food imports, where food has to travel a thousand miles before it comes to the table. With the rise of supermarkets in the city, unhealthy food outlets such as fast food and food wall have taken place. Leaving the inner-city neighborhood with no access to fresh and healthy food. On the other hand, the current infrastructure, building typology and zoning created spatial and social isolation that more and more people tend to eat alone or at home, thus degrading the social value of food.

Therefore, this studio will help the student establish a critique of both the space and process of how current food system is made in Los Angeles and reimagines alternative spatial and systematic typologies to liberate food from its confined situations. And proposed new food system design urbanistically and architecture intervention that confines of “taste” in contemporary design.

洛杉矶目前的食品产业存在许多问题。它是严重依赖食品进口的地方之一。随着大型超市的兴起，快餐店等不健康的食品店不断的出现。一旦离开市中心区，就无法获得新鲜健康的食物。另一方面，当前的基础设施，建筑类型和分区造成了空间上的和社会的孤立，越来越多的人倾向于单独或在家吃饭，从而降低了食物的社会价值。

因此，该studio将帮助学生建立从空间上以及过程上对洛杉矶当前食物系统是如何制造的个人看法，并重新设想替代的空间和系统类型，以便将食物从其狭窄的环境中解放出来。

 

02

TASKS

课题任务

 

 

该studio将探索洛杉矶的饮食文化，正如南加州的餐厅文化突破了仅仅是坐着吃饭这一模式的局限性一样，精致美食可以通过食品推车，移动货车和pop-up来展示。不同于以往典型的studio的以机械为出发点，我们的studio将关注当代建筑的社会性和社区性。通过社会视角解决食品系统的问题：商业，社区，文化和交通。该工作室旨在通过一系列可以激活新社会关系的食品模拟器来重塑区域食品系统的运作。

新食品系统的设计将提升食品加工机制，并为人们提供与食品接触的新体验，学生可以单独或两人一组进行设计。

 

 

03

SITE

场地

 

The studio will begin with an urban analysis of a charged and compelling neighborhood in downtown Los Angeles, where the corporate and financial nexus of the West Coast abuts one of the most festive retail districts of the country’s largest Latino community. To the west, the glossy and slick Bunker Hill is studded with high-rises and cultural icons, including the Museum of Contemporary Art (Arata Isozaki), Disney Hall (Frank Gehry) and the under-construction Broad Museum (Diller Scofidio + Renfro). To the east, Broadway is a burgeoning assemblage of swap meets, open-air markets, and taquerias, including the landmark Grand Central Market. Like neighboring Spring Street, Broadway is rapidly undergoing gentrification, as hundreds of lofts and dozens of high-end retailers transform the tawdry but exhilarating Old Bank District. The site encourages students to explore the disparities that exist between two versions of Los Angeles—the one of longing and striving—and the one we see more commonly portrayed in film, television, and multimedia—the city of angels and stars, the locus of glamour and the cynosure of celebrity.