SETTLING IN
BY WENDY GILMARTIN
A Los Angeles firm turns to super-light interventions for a landscape bent on change.
From the September 2016 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine.
It?s been nearly three years since Los Angeles County Waste Management?s fleet of rumbling trash trucks ceased their daily climb up and down the massive landfill in Puente Hills, for years one of the nation?s largest. Now, the 640-acre site is poised to become a public park, and despite its proximity to an area rich in outdoor amenities like the picturesque Powder Canyon and Arroyo Pescadero Trail, it lacks easy access and infrastructure that would allow surrounding working-class San Gabriel Valley communities a chance to experience its spectacular views and raw terrain. ?When the county came to us, they wanted us to think big, and they wanted the public to think big,? says Bryan Matsumoto, a landscape design associate at Withers & Sandgren Landscape Architecture and Planning in Montrose, California. On behalf of the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation, Withers & Sandgren worked with Auburn, Alabama-based Hillworks Landscape + Architecture and other consultants to develop a careful strategy of maximizing the site?s abrasively atypical features and orchestrated a series of surprisingly creative and lively community workshops to promote the master plan process. ?We were bracing ourselves for conflict and uncertainty. People are skeptical and unsure of the environmental aspects of...
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