Stitching New Surfaces

Throughout the 20th century, new freeway construction divided the city of Los Angeles. Where neighborhoods were once together, concrete and asphalt scars separated communities. Some of these freeways are built on creeks or in valleys and as a result, they lay beneath ground level flanked by embankments on either side. My project proposes constructing new surfaces above these sections of freeway, connecting either side at grade, and capping the roads beneath. These new surfaces would create an artificial space for urban amenities, in neighborhoods where they would count the most, in a city otherwise too crowded for such public developments.