[WATCH]: Playa Rosa

UCLA cityLAB's contribution to "Workshopping", the American Pavilion at the 2010 Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy, is conceived around illustrating, by means of four pilot projects, the LAB's basic operating system: the "incubation" process in which our thinktank initially identifies a problem, harvests a series of strategies to address it, then chooses one to develop and test/implement on a real site. Each of the projects, concisely presented in model, diagrams and perspectives (or digital projection), is shown as an outcome of this three-step gestation process. The exhibit explains how, in the last stage of work, we identify funding sources, and assemble a group of select collaborators centered around the architectural team,

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