A Watt Saved is a Watt Earned

Safe Passage looks to establish a new discourse surrounding the topic of energy in architecture and engineering. If true energy efficiency is desired, a design cannot simply lesson its embodied energy, but must generate clean energy or reduce dirty energy consumption. This design seeks to build bridges between currently segregated communities to create more walkable environments, which in turn reduces the need for fossil fuel driven travel. The bridge itself has low embodied energy due to its reuse and its extensive impact reduces fossil fuel consumption on a community scale. The shipping container is thus transformed from a means of transporting goods to a mode of human transportation.

Safe Passage not only proposes a singular intervention, but rather a method for pin pointing areas of high energetic impact to focus design efforts on. If our designs seek efficiency, so must the design process. The chosen focus area for this project is Los Angeles County, famous for un-walkable, segregated micro-communities. This is merely a demonstration of our methodology followed through to its associated intervention.