This drawing set takes a look at a few of the repetitive banal housing typologies that make up Los Angeles- the typical suburban bungalow, the victorian mansion, the ubiquitous post-modern mission style row house, and the modernist monster dingbat apartment. Each piece is part of the existing status quo system that the drawing series will then proceed to hack.

Each building is drawn in a cut-away axonometric to reveal the sectional space. Each axonometric is broken open and machinery inserted. This machinery is assembled from existing parts (such as car engines retrofitted to generate energy).

In order to motivate the drawing assemblages, it was necessary to create fictional narratives of the energy traders residing in each house. The fictions weave together personal research regarding renewable energy and climate change, Los Angeles culture and ground-up individual ambition. Each drawing contained an inventory of cultural artifacts present in the assemblage, in addition to the diagrammatic process of re-appropriating existing machinery as a miniature power plant in a suburban home.

The diagrammatic animation depicts the possibilities of decentralizing energy production and distribution in the city context of Los Angeles. It starts by depicting the current situation of Los Angeles- Like
many other major cities, it receives over half of its energy from out of state power plants (coal and nuclear)- centralized, one way production.

The next animations propose using open source networks as methods of democratic energy flows: the residents now control the power of energy production. All the energy consumption and production flow into a localized decentralized network of sharing rather than relying on unstable authoritarian sources.