Three River Creations by RickyVegas

  White House smells of Parthenon Have you ever looked at a soulless plot of land, ready for cookie-cutter development and realized that residential homes have not come very far in the last 5 decades? Well, I have, and it is a sh*^^y sight to see. You see one problem that I have with current residential architecture is that it is stagnant. Even the very beautiful Victorian homes that grace San Franciscan hills are dormant of creativity because in a way the designers back then were more interested in preserving older concepts than creating new ones. This is felt mostly in the Greek Revival homes that then went out of fashion replaced by Gothic Era, Italianate, and Neo-Classicism. Yet the one thing they all share in common is their plagiarism of structures that were used to honor deities. In the Greek revival, or Athenian copy and paste era, we see the use of high columns, to create a deep sense of space that is almost overbearing and that's because it was a space designed to h...

Los Angeles as a Center for Influential Change in the Green Movement The city of Los ANgeles was a vast concrete incubation chamber of western society, as interpreted by Southern California. When people try to compare the Dichotomy of North and South California, the are making a distinction between the OUtdoor Lifestyles Crowd and LA. San Diego is so unique, but not a s influential as LA, that it has to be said to be its own entity, in the way that San Francisco as a City does not fully encompass the identity of Nor Cal. My time in the city has brought upon some cultural/social realizations about where LA as a city is headed in the near future. A city of vast stereotypes, cultural critiques and plastic surgery lays before me nebulas and yet so full of color. Like a melting pot of cultural soup but you can identify all of the parts. From the large and dynamic Persian Population, to the equally stereotyped Jewish community, LA is a place of image and status, more so than any other Cit...

RickyVegas, Guillem P., Diego R., Jeremy H. As we grow as metropolitans we often loose sight of the systems of agriculture that allow us to thrive in an emerging society of science and technology. At the same time we are being marginalized from those systems of production and know less and less about the world around us. Our mission is to create an environment of learning, sharing , and volunteering that benefits local communities by empowering them to know about agricultural systems and participate in the growing and production of crops within an urban domain. The idea of skyscraper farms is becoming more viable and a serious consideration as we see the negative effects of trucked in foods that sometimes come thousands of mile from their original source. The plan to build a rotund one acre Urban Farm can be adapted either from absorbing a warehouse, parking garage, or other large are a structure would allow us to develop a three story farm that uses a design specific for the ur...