This project explores the systemic reuse of the derelict Los Angeles River as a site for varying clusters that play host to cultural production in a coming age of mass technological unemployment. The disused concrete riverbed is re-imagined as a new platform for mobility and a green artery that weaves its way through Los Angeles.

In response to increasing gentrification of creative districts within the city, the project provides community-led cultural infrastructure for makers’ spaces, workshops and garages that cut into the concrete embankment and cantilever over the river for Angelino creatives to connect and create.

The project is imagined as a criticism of the ad-hoc planning system and culture in Los Angeles. Rather than seeking to seamlessly embed itself within the city, the scheme occupies the river at different points along its length, clashing with the adjacent industrial sites, with access coming from the mobility infrastructure under the riverbed. The cantilevered buildings allow for the democratic public occupation of the riverbed to be maximised, to be used according to the varying needs of the many different sub-cultures that exist along the length of the river.