Los Angeles, CA can be defined as a place of excess and saturation (you can find some stats in the previous post). Geographical, demographic and economic aspects have render LA as a condensed sprawl (the city is well spread out across the Los Angeles Basin and the San Fernando Valley, however every square mile is saturated of people, cars, infrastructure, advertisement, waste, etc). The airport, LAX, occupies an ambiguous territory in the city, being part of LA and multiple destinations at once, yet it is neither one at the same time. It occupies a territory that lies “in-between”, and provides its own kind of saturation; one that amalgamates cultural features, ignores privacy boundaries, and allows for anonymity while your identity is scrutinized. 
The project concentrates in this saturation, focusing in ways of control and regulation, and occupying that territory of the”in-between”. By means of sensory deprivation and isolation, the encampment colony seeks to enhance the LA experience by individual desaturation through immersion.
The encampment offers a space in which the visitor deliberately opts for the reduction and removal of stimuli from the senses. The cocoons function as a REST (Restricted Environmental Stimuli Therapy) Tank, in which a person floats in saline water that is the same temperature as the skin in order to deprive the skin of the feeling of hot or cold. The tank is without light, reducing the sense of sight, and is soundproof as well. The sense of smell is reduced by eliminating the use of chemicals with odors to treat the water.
The outer surfaces serve as filters from the outside, framing an intermediate space that offers a territory devoid of outside influences. The skins wrap around the north and east side of the parking structure, utilizing the more isolated and least exposed areas, taking adavantage of the shadow offer by the building and, consequently, the lower temperatures. The following diagram shows the behaviour of the skin, acting as an inverse function of the sunpath.
Using a moss strategy for structural support the surfaces grow denser in the areas that are mostly needed (Mosses developed elaborate designs for clinging to each other, making the entire mass behave like a foam rubber pillow, conforming to the slightest pressure, but springing back to business as usual when the pressure is removed).
Likewise, I wish the surfaces to behave like the mosses, wrapping the north and east facades of the parking structure.
At this point, I need to work on the structure of the beams to allow for a more ‘realistsic’ cantilever, and the cellular structure of the surface needs to be reworked, as it is now spread at constant intervals.
