Everybody Walks in LA: Transitioning the Harbor Freeway

In the near-distant future shaped by environmental collapse and societal fragmentation, the 110 Freeway in Downtown Los Angeles is a “junkspace,” the discarded fragments of an infrastructural monument. A vehicle corridor-turned-self-made-promenade, the 110 remains a convergence of people from all walks of life, passing through Downtown Los Angeles en route to their daily activities. Ad-hoc landscape projects, a promenade dotted with housing, and a queer bathhouse emerge to support the daily life of weary pedestrians.
Through this transformation of infrastructure, we can imagine a new condition, bound not by the emptiness and rigid binaries of modernism, but by a boundaryless and self-conditional set of negotiations.