NLP

Heterotopias are environments capable of transporting their audiences from their generic immediate surroundings into a different dimension. They are manifested environments and, at the same time, unreal spaces that suggest possibility of other worlds.

An analysis of Foucault's "Of Other Spaces," reveals programmatic and spatial characteristics descriptive of heterotopias. The objective of this project is to explore and expand upon an architectural manifestation of these terms in order to create an environment of desire. 

According to Foucault's "Of Other Spaces," there are six principles that define heterotopia; this project explores each of these principles through their programmatic and spatial characteristics.

The project also compreses heterotopias linked to slices in time into one interweaving field of layers. The heterotopias compressed in the Cornfield Park located in downtown Los Angeles are: Amusement Park, Cemetery, Library and Museum.

The layering of amusement park, cemetery, library and museum allows the viewer the choice of coexisting in several different worlds, the fast paced, the slow, the real, the unreal, and all at once.

All four of the heterotopic programs included in this project are conceptual collections of history running at disjointed times.