Site location: Lower Arroyo Park & Desidero Park; Beneath the Colorado Street Bridge

(also known as “Suicide Bridge”)

Due to the highly networked, global, real-time infiltration of digital media, today, our society is both hyper-connected and deeply isolated. This condition is taking its toll on teens most directly: with suicide and depression on the rise, we look to architecture as a site of re-embodiment; supporting an environment of presence, safety and awareness. By expanding on the Memorial Typology, this project creates a space of acceptance, knowledge building and support services, harnessing the evocative and experiential capacity of architecture to build empathy.