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Architects: Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects
- Area: 35000 ft²
- Year: 2025
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Photographs:Eric Staudenmaier
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Manufacturers: Soleffect, Trex, Collectif Tournesol , Giant Containers, Growing Hope, Mohawk Flooring, Taylor Metal Products
Text description provided by the architects. In 2018, the City of Los Angeles made available some of its more than 1,700 city-owned parcels to affordable housing developers. Many of these sites are difficult, lying along heavy-traffic corridors or next to freeways. In other instances, the sites are composite parcels that have been left untouched for decades. In LOHA's second collaboration with non-profit developer Holos Communities, this 35,000-square-foot, 54-unit housing project and adjacent paseo repurpose a 19,814-square-foot triangular site, uniting a traffic island and a former railroad right-of-way. Situated near one of the world's busiest freeway interchanges—the meeting of the 110 and 105 freeways—the design makes a challenging location more livable.
