this project looks at the issues of water in L.A. and uses both the building and the farm to alleviate the cities problems. 

we designed small water purification pods that fit into the structure of the farm's main pavillion. It used solar energy to purify grey water from the city and gravity to collect the water.

To initiate the project, we did an intensive mapping of L.A.'s water (or lack there of)

We propose that our farm will take on the polluted water from Los Angeles {the LA River} and the recycled water from Paramount, clean the water, return it to the water table, and provide the people with potable water and food. We based our site plan on research done by Allen Berger and his water natural purification system. He used a series of islands to push and pull the water, forcing it to slow, meander, and causing the toxic agents to settle where they can be naturally filtered by the plants. We decided to use the logic dictated by our reading of the paint swatch and use it apply Berger’s system to our site on the L.A. River. We applied our swatch to the site, pulling it along the existing pedestrian bridge, pushed it up along the river, and then used to contours and ridges of the paint to inform how we reconstruct the river edge and islands. We are now cleaning the L.A. River as well as slowing the river down enough to allow th