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Buildings As Design Challenges
- Buildings invite us to reimagine them as obstacles or collaborators in a heist scenario.
- Alona Gaynor uses design as a plot device, treating heists as imaginative design projects.
LA's Geography And Heist Culture
- Los Angeles was once the bank robbery capital with thousands of robberies, partly due to highways that ease escape routes.
- Cultural feedback from Hollywood also amplifies and romanticizes heists in LA.
LA Jet Crash Distraction Plot
- Alona Gaynor planned a massive LA distraction involving a falling replica 747 to divert emergency responders.
- She researched vault sizes and proposed carving concentric circles to pull entire vaults out on trucks.