Bridging Over LA
Bridges are elevated lateral connections that carry and transport people through a space. In a city dominated by horizontality Downtown Los Angles is an anomaly where verticality rules. My thesis focuses on providing additional Horizontal bridging that not only transports people accessibly but changes the dynamic to the existing vertical axis that is Downtown Los Angeles.
Angels Flight is a landmark and historic railway in the Bunker Hill district of Downtown Los Angeles
The funicular has operated on two different sites, using the same cars and station elements. The original location, with trackage along the side of Third Street Tunnel and connecting Hill Street and Olive Street, operated from 1901 until 1969, when its site was cleared for redevelopment.
The current location opened half a block south of the original location in 1996, between 3rd and 4th Streets, with tracks connecting Hill Street and California Plaza.