WPA 2.0: Hydrogenic City
Finalist, Professional Category, Open International Competition
Hydrogenic City addresses the impacts of climate change and depleting water supplies in Los Angeles with a responsive and scalable solution: a decentralized network of environmentally sensitive and aesthetically compelling wastewater reclamation centers.
Each reclamation center provides a sustainable water source to the city and the distributed design scales naturally. The mechanistic infrastructure of waterworks is transformed into an interactive and sensory series of public nodes. As mist platforms, solar-encased water tanks, urban beaches, aquatic parking lots, reflecting pools and channels, water-based landscapes become organizational moments for community building.