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Urban Intervention - San Diego Theater Plaza. San Diego, California

Urban Intervention, Landscape architecture proposal for San Diego Theatres

Urban Intervention: Transforming San Diego Theater Plaza into Vibrant Space

Welcome to LASD Studio, where we redefine spaces through the innovative practice of Urban Intervention. Our passion lies in breathing new life into urban environments, and one of our standout projects is the transformation of San Diego theatre space into a dynamic and vibrant area.

What is Urban Intervention? Urban Intervention is an artful and purposeful approach to reimagining public spaces. It involves injecting creativity and energy into the existing urban fabric, turning mundane spaces into dynamic and engaging environments. At LASD Studio, we believe in the power of design to positively impact communities and enrich the human experience. Through Urban Intervention, we create spaces that captivate, inspire, and foster a sense of connection.

The LASD Touch: Transforming San Diego Theatre Space Our San Diego theatre space project is a testament to our commitment to pushing the boundaries of conventional design. Through the infusion of vibrant, colorful, and abstract art, we've turned a once-static environment into a dynamic canvas that reflects the spirit of the community.

Benefits of Vibrant, Colorful, Abstract Art Design:

Community Engagement: The vibrant and colorful design invites the community to actively participate and engage with the space. It becomes a place where people gather, connect, and celebrate.
Enhanced Aesthetics: The abstract art design adds a unique and visually stunning dimension to the theatre space, transforming it into a destination that stimulates the senses and sparks creativity.
Cultural Expression: Our design approach embraces the rich tapestry of San Diego's cultural diversity. The abstract art serves as a visual language that communicates the unique stories and experiences of the community.
Positive Impact on Well-being: A vibrant and lively space has a direct impact on the well-being of individuals. It uplifts moods, fosters a sense of pride, and contributes to a positive and inclusive community atmosphere.

Join Us in Transforming Spaces: At LASD Studio, we invite you to explore the transformative power of Urban Intervention. Join us on a journey where creativity knows no bounds, and where the ordinary evolves into the extraordinary. Our commitment is to continue reshaping urban landscapes, one vibrant space at a time.

Discover the San Diego theatre space project and explore the magic of Urban Intervention at LASD Studio Projects - Urban Intervention & Landscape Architecture Design.

San Diego Theater Plaza is a bustling urban hub, home to vibrant cultural events, social gatherings, and artistic expressions. But to make it truly exceptional, we propose to merge the world of landscape design and abstract art, creating a space that is not just functional but awe-inspiring.

Abstract Art in Landscape Design

Abstract art is characterized by the use of shapes, forms, colors, and textures to convey emotions, ideas, and experiences without relying on traditional, realistic representations. In the context of the San Diego Theater Plaza, abstract art in landscape design means turning this space into a canvas where the garden becomes a living, breathing masterpiece.

The Three Pillars of Our Design:

1. Dynamic Geometry: Abstract art thrives on the play of geometric shapes. We will introduce a mesmerizing labyrinth of pathways, where angular and curvilinear lines converge and diverge. This dynamic geometry not only makes navigation enjoyable but creates a visual masterpiece through the interplay of shapes.

2. Vibrant Color Palette: Abstract art is renowned for its bold use of color. The Plaza's flora and foliage will incorporate a rich spectrum of hues, creating seasonal exhibitions that transform the space throughout the year. Imagine the vibrant blooms of spring, the cool shades of summer, the fiery tones of fall, and the serene whites of winter. The ever-changing colors mirror the dynamism of abstract art itself.

3. Interactive Sculptures: To further engage visitors and blur the lines between art and nature, we propose incorporating abstract sculptures seamlessly into the landscape (due to the exhibition) and/or lighting up the existing trees with vibrant colors. These sculptures will not be static; instead, they will respond to environmental changes, lighting conditions, or even visitor interactions, adding an interactive dimension to the Plaza's artistry.

Positive Effects on the Space and Urban Environment:

1. Cultural Hub: San Diego Theater Plaza will evolve into a cultural and artistic mecca. By embracing abstract art, it will attract not only local residents but also art enthusiasts from across the region and beyond.

2. Green Oasis: The lush, abstract garden will enhance the urban environment, providing a much-needed oasis of greenery in the heart of the city. This green space will improve air quality, reduce the urban heat island effect, and contribute to a healthier and more sustainable city.

3. Community Gathering: The dynamic geometry, interactive sculptures, and seasonal colors will make the Plaza a magnet for social gatherings, performances, and public events. It will strengthen the bonds within the community and foster a sense of unity and pride.

4. Economic Impact (in case of larger space): With increased foot traffic and cultural prominence, local businesses will thrive. Restaurants, cafes, and shops will benefit from the influx of visitors to the Plaza, revitalizing the local economy.

In conclusion, San Diego Theater Plaza's transformation into an abstract art masterpiece is not just a design concept but a vision for the future. It is a celebration of art, nature, and urban vitality, aiming to enrich the lives of residents and visitors alike. This project symbolizes our commitment to creating innovative spaces that resonate with the human spirit and enhance our urban environments. Together, we can turn this Plaza into a living, breathing work of abstract art, an enduring source of inspiration, and a testament to the power of design in our lives. Thank you for your attention, and let's make this vision a reality.

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“ We love everything you guys created!

This is a very unique and modern concept that we would like to see in our future!

What you come up with we could not emagine, but we love it!”

- San Diego Theatres boards.

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San Diego, California.

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Urban scape - Capistrano HOA. San Diego, California.

Capistrano

Streetscape design

A little about the design. We bound all the site with hedge plant - Coprosma repens ‘Pacific Sunset’. This purple hedge really make a statement in a very easy and elegant way.

As we can see, the hedge is the main element that unies the sites in one coherent design. Also, it creates a pockets for different plantings. Passing by, people will experience diversity of spaces and atmospheres.

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CAPISTRANO HOA, San Diego, California.

‘ We never really thought of red hedge. Such a simple and strong element creates a huge difference for the appearance and aesthetic of the building.
Thank you for your effort in this design.’

Capistrano board HOA.

Our landscape, ecology, future of the planet, and our civilization is under a big risk. We aim to create, shape, and restore the landscape and urban environments for the sustainable continuation of life on our planet. Our goal is to live in balance with nature and provide: clean water, air, soil resources for the next generation. But we cannot achieve our goal alone.

Whether you are private person, commercial, NGO’s, or governmental institution you are welcome to join our mission.
Life begins with you. Join our mission today.

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Ethno village. Reykjavik, Island.

LASD Studio works across garden design, landscape architecture, urban design, and regional landscape design. Our goal is to live in balance with nature. With landscape design, we have to close the cycle of clean water, fresh air, ready to plant soil, and other vital resources for the next generation.

Ethno Village is a free shape space where you can be fully connected with the local nature of Reykjavik. This is a perfect place to spend time for a weekend or a little holiday. Ethno Village can facilitate a special ethnic festival, a hike midpoint, meditation or yoga classes, team-building events, etc. The iconic spherical traveler pods enhance the uniqueness of the place magnetizing more visitors with time by its artistic visual representation. The campus design includes 3 main elements: Spherical traveler pods, Carnival center as a main facility building with the green roof, and a large outdoor concert area for meetings and concerts. Ethno Village is a free shape constantly evolving environment as per user needs. The flow of travelers determined by the simplicity of nature. Travelers pods are easy to relocate when needed.

Our landscape, ecology, civilization, and the future of the planet are at risk. We aim to create, shape, and restore the landscape and urban environments for the sustainable continuation of life on our planet. Our goal is to live in balance with nature and provide clean water, air, soil resources for the next generation.

We cannot achieve our goal alone. Whether you are an individual, commercial business, an NGO, or governmental institution, you are welcome to join our mission.

Life begins with you. Join our mission today.

Village design — Ethno Village

LASD Studio | Reykjavik

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Innovation HUB. Dusseldorf, Germany.

Landscape design entails the creation and ornamentation of gardens, yards, grounds, parks, and other outdoor spaces. Landscape design is used to improve the appearance of buildings, public spaces, recreational places, and parks. It is a decorative art form associated with architecture, urban planning, and gardening.

Even the greatest metropolises are surrounded and penetrated by the vegetative environment that blanketed most of the Earth's continents before people began to construct. Garden design, as well as efforts to protect and promote sustainable open space in and around cities, are all attempts to keep in touch with the authentic pastoral, rural landscape. By filling open spaces in cities, gardens and created landscapes establish a continuum in space between structured cityscapes as well as the open rural landscapes outside. Furthermore, gardens and landscaped landscapes offer a unique form of chronological continuity. Structures, art, and sculptures may outlast single plants, but plants continuously grow and transform to give a continuous temporal dimension that static buildings and artwork cannot.

Design is a significant element of landscape architecture's profession, although it is by no means all of it. Landscape architecture encompasses planning and design, plan outlines, master planning, urban design, and environmental planning, and is defined as "the art of organizing land and the items on it for human use and enjoyment."

The majority of the population is aware of how to keep their gardens and landscapes in good shape by watering the plants and pruning the shrubs and trees. However, not everyone understands how to properly plant their outside areas. Wouldn't it be good to be able to stare out your living room window upon something lovely and fresh-looking? An abstract landscape might be the answer if your fantasy garden has natural lines, great contrast, and vivid colors. This landscaping style is suitable for almost any home, regardless of its design.

For this particular kind of landscape architecture, curvilinear shapes are highly suggested. A softer look is obtained this way rather than harsh lines. However, using squares and triangles in an abstract garden scene is still permissible.

Abstract landscape allows nature to guide you in the placement of hedges, paths, and flowerbeds in an area to balance the other aspects.

There's no need to be concerned about every element being symmetrical. True, when one plans a garden based on symmetry, a balanced, albeit classic, the appearance will be obtained. Traditional isn't what we're striving for with an abstract garden scene. As a result, you must think outside the box and employ asymmetry.

Forget about having hedges that are identical on both sides. Why don't we put one on the left that's tall and one on the right that's short? There's nothing wrong with trying out fresh ideas for landscaping. Instead of having a single focus point in the center, asymmetry allows each corner of the land to be distinct.

An abstract landscape allows a more engaging and captivating atmosphere to everybody since it is current and fresh. There are no restrictions or guidelines. You may use your imagination and create it however you like. You're also urged to play with color combinations to make each element stand out.

A lot of time and work will go into planning and constructing an abstract landscape, when it comes to organization, it's preferable to be a little more laid-back. After all, we're trying for an abstract appearance here. Consider being in a forest where the trees and flowers are not planted in a straight line but rather in random spots. They are dispersed and separated at random distances from one another.

It's also a good idea to use flowers and plants that appear to be unkempt and unruly. This will give your landscape a more natural feel.

Abstract landscape design is all about freedom of expression!

The Innovation Hub will educate, motivate, inspire, develop, test and create a final product to make our planet a better place to improve people's lives. The innovation space intends to establish a creative environment for enthusiastic and full of potential people to develop their ideas to the next level. Digital innovation hub Düsseldorf

We cannot achieve our goal alone. Whether you are an individual, commercial business, an NGO, or governmental institution, you are welcome to join our mission.

Life begins with you. Join our mission today.

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Shemagh. Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

The Shemagh Project is a holistic approach towards mitigating the urban heat island effect, providing comfort to public. The Shemagh Project proposes to target the urban heat island effect by active and passive design approaches. An active part of the design includes the Urban Cooler that directly catches CO2, cleans the air of hazardous chemicals, viruses and bacteria, and significantly cools down the air; and pavilions that reduce UV and IR solar radiation, providing shade from the sun, serve as refreshing areas for the public, and providing useful urban facilities such as restrooms, storage, etc.

The passive part of the design involves using special coatings for the surrounding parking areas, as well as permeable pavement to increase the albedo ratio. The active part of the design project to lower air temperature in a range from 7 to 13 °C locally, depending on the urban cooler setup, while the passive design will reduce surface heat in the range of 5-12 °C. The holistic combination of active and passive approaches allows us to predict that we will be able to cool down the current area to about 13-16 °C from the original site under the no-wind urban environment condition.

The Shemagh Project is replicable and adjustable for other locations across the city. The establishment of a Shemagh Grid around the city center will create more powerful conditions of mitigating the urban heat island effect of the city and reduce the temperature to the level of ‘moderate heat stress’ and ‘no thermal stress’. We propose that such a solution should be implemented in a walkable distance grid across the city not only to mitigate the urban heat island effect on the larger area, but also to provide vital refreshment of public spaces for urban life.

We cannot achieve our goal alone. Whether you are an individual, commercial business, an NGO, or governmental institution, you are welcome to join our mission.

Life begins with you. Join our mission today.

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Bishop Lucey Park Timeline. Cork, Ireland.

Timeline concept – visitors pass through the main alle and see vibrant, diverse activities and groups of people that form urban life. In a philosophical sense, this is a timeline of a human being's life. The design proposal intends to bring our community together. Bishop Lucey Park redevelopment proposal defines future achievements of unique space identity, vibrancy, mix-use, open possibilities for the future changes within the fixed grid that allows residents, visitors, tourism, and business attraction. The ‘Timeline’ design proposal combines recommendations and principles of The City Movement Strategy, The Cork City Council Corporate Plan, and Cork City Development Plan.

The ‘Timeline’ design proposal principles are:

1. Movement and Accessibility;

2. Play – Relax – Enjoy, the place will serve the needs of the vibrant community;

3. Multifunctionality for the all-ages, diverse interests, as well as for people with physical abilities;

4. Security of space by design;

5. Form a grid that allows the evolution of the space.

We cannot achieve our goal alone. Whether you are an individual, commercial business, an NGO, or governmental institution, you are welcome to join our mission.

Life begins with you. Join our mission today.

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Contemporary Landscape Design. Chula Vista, San Diego, California.

Contemporary Landscape Design Minimal planting, clear order, clean lines. With this design, we were targeting open living space with a clear bound to the minimalist movement. This work set out to expose the essence of space and its identity by eliminating all non essential forms. In Buddhism - the art of minimalism living.

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We cannot achieve our goal alone. Whether you are an individual, commercial business, an NGO, or governmental institution, you are welcome to join our mission.

Life begins with you. Join our mission today.

Contemporary garden

San Diego, California

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Baroque Garden. Hillcrest, San Diego, California.

Baroque gardens were intended to illustrate the mastery of man over nature.

They were often designed to be seen from above and from a little distance, usually from the salons or terraces of a chateau. They were laid out like rooms in a house, in geometric patterns, divided by gravel alleys or lanes, with the meeting points of the lanes often marked by fountains or statues. Flower beds were designed like tapestries, with bands of shrubbery and flowers forming the designs. Larger bushes and trees were sculpted into conical or dome-like shapes, and trees were grouped in bosquets, or orderly clusters. Water was usually present in the form of long rectangular ponds, aligned with the terraces of the house, or circular ponds with fountains. The gardens usually included one more small pavilion, where visitors could take shelter from the sun or rain.

Credit to: Kluckert, "Les Jardins Baroques", in L'Art Baroque – Architecture- Sculpture- Peinture (2015), p. 152

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Whether you are private person, commercial, NGO’s, or governmental institution you are welcome to join our mission.
Life begins with you. Join our mission today.

Urban Intervention: Transforming San Diego Theater Plaza into Vibrant Space

San Diego Theatres

Capistrano Urban Scape

Ethno Village

Innovation HUB

Shemagh

Timeline

Contemporary garden

Baroque Garden