BUNDY TRIANGLE PROJECT
Our group focused on the theme of “infrastructure” as a lens to view regional history, we found existing neighbors living unhoused at the park to be individuals who may be most impacted by developments at the park. Introducing our student project- and its city funding- to people we spoke with, we hoped to invite neighbors into the work of building accessible green space that reflected present needs and that recognized internalized tensions.
Since the completion of this student work, Council District 11 has voted and funded the implementation of a special use clausing making it illegal for people to occupy space around the park and along surrounding roads, effectively criminalizing basic survival needs like sitting, lying down, sleeping, or storing personal property at the site of the Bundy Triangle Park. Namely the application of municipal codes 41.18 and 56.11 which are used as legal enforcement against members of the community who are unhoused or vending without permit. Councilmember Traci Park submitted a resolution on November 4th, 2024 for the enforcement of municipal code 41.18 in the park and the surrounding neighborhood on the basis of public safety concern reported by the Fire Department, some of which have been alleged to be fabricated during encampment sweeps.
This project revealed the implications of design work in the public realm to me as a designer, and its use as a strategy towards ongoing discrimination and the violation of human rights issues related to land access.
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Location: Neighborhood of Sawtelle, West LA
Spring 2024
As part of a collaborative Urban Design Studio working with the West Los Angeles-Sawtelle Neighborhood Council (WLASNC)’s Bundy Triangle Park adhoc committee and Cal Poly Pomona’s Landscape Architecture department, our team conducted research through a series of informal conversations, listening events, and activities in community with the intention of concluding the project by sharing conceptual design interventions to the neighborhood council and Traci Park’s office in Council District 11. The work we participated in was a continuation of the Bundy Triangle Park campaign proposed in part by former community member and writer Joel Epstein.Spring 2024
Our group focused on the theme of “infrastructure” as a lens to view regional history, we found existing neighbors living unhoused at the park to be individuals who may be most impacted by developments at the park. Introducing our student project- and its city funding- to people we spoke with, we hoped to invite neighbors into the work of building accessible green space that reflected present needs and that recognized internalized tensions.
Since the completion of this student work, Council District 11 has voted and funded the implementation of a special use clausing making it illegal for people to occupy space around the park and along surrounding roads, effectively criminalizing basic survival needs like sitting, lying down, sleeping, or storing personal property at the site of the Bundy Triangle Park. Namely the application of municipal codes 41.18 and 56.11 which are used as legal enforcement against members of the community who are unhoused or vending without permit. Councilmember Traci Park submitted a resolution on November 4th, 2024 for the enforcement of municipal code 41.18 in the park and the surrounding neighborhood on the basis of public safety concern reported by the Fire Department, some of which have been alleged to be fabricated during encampment sweeps.
This project revealed the implications of design work in the public realm to me as a designer, and its use as a strategy towards ongoing discrimination and the violation of human rights issues related to land access.
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