On gamedays Exposition Park is bustling with football fans, tourists, and street merchants. Unfortunately, this is only 6 or 7 days a year.
Clearly, Expo Park is in need of revitalization.
My first decision was to diagram circulation throughout the site. This was to understand how the current flow of pedestrians and automobiles presents opportunities for enhancement.
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| Red - Existing Vehicular Blue - Existing Pedestrian Orange - New Circulation |
Below is my current progression in masterplanning. The north side of the stadium should create an entertainment district that would allow easy access for students from USC's campus. This starts on the northwest corner with a new USC fitness center, intramural fields, and finally athletic offices and training which ties into the stadiums structure. This plan requires the relocation of the California Science Center, which currently blocks the flow of pedestrian traffic north/south while also hindering views of the Coliseum during approach.
The south side of the site is proposed as reclaimed open park space and water retention lake, much like the English Garden examples from earlier. Bordering the park to the east and anchoring the southeast corner of Expo Park is a new soccer stadium proposal. This would be home to Chivas USA, who has been mentioned to be looking for a new home away from the Home Depot Center. Just north of the stadium is a hotel and retail center to enclose a large plaza.
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| Site sections |
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| Existing Buidlings |
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| Proposed Buildings |
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| New Site |
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| Site perspective from southeast |
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| New approach idea to stadium |
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