The project, commissioned by the Port of Los Angeles, has been designed by Massachusetts-based integrated planning and design firm Sasaki. It involves doubling the public areas in the facility. The park, situated on a 30-acre area of land, features a contemporary design with its pavilions, lighting systems, furnishings and joint patterns on the ground plane possessing a sculptural and faceted form.
The park imbibes various measures to cut down noise and air pollution performing the function of a natural buffer between port operations and surrounding neighborhoods through a landform measuring 16 feet positioned in the park’s southern end. The landform will reduce noise transfer from the port while allowing glimpses of the surrounding coastline. Further, the park has coated a test panel on the facility’s complete 35,000 square feet of wall surface with titanium dioxide to reduce airborne pollutants. Air pollution has been further mitigated through plantation of about two acres of tree groves in close proximity to the park.
The facility’s lighting systems offers night time illumination with dark-sky compliant fixtures but refrains from radiating glare on the nearby areas. The waterfront park also comprises a stormwater management system that includes French drains along walkways, planter beds as well as low areas. The French drains are made of subsurface stone measuring 5,000 linear feet.
