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Van Ness Apartments

Los Angeles, CA


The Van Ness apartments are designed as a co-living complex intended to appeal to Los Angeles creatives. The client approached us with a unique program intended to mix housing with an eclectic array of amenity spaces meant to foster collaboration and creative expression. Via the manipulation of a courtyard typology, the building becomes a breathing, creative organism in and of itself, promoting collaborations and performing efficiently in the Southern California climate. By designing the units to be semi-prefabricated and using industrial materials in novel ways, the design is able to maximize aesthetic appeal while maintaining the project on budget and schedule.

Program 9 co-living apartments + amenities
Client ROM Investments
Type Multi-family
Budget $5mm
Size 19,600 sf
Status On hold


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As is the case with most buildings in Los Angeles, parking has a major impact on the project design given the limited available footprint. After accounting for the required parking and back-of-house program, the allowable building footprint is necessarily maxed out. Using the full site for parking begets building out to the allowable envelope fully, at least as a starting point. To break up the massing and provide more natural light, the monolithic block is split open to a courtyard typology. By splitting the typology the courtyard can break free of the confines of the building block, adding more permeability to the space and better connecting it to its context. The resulting courtyard can then be programmed as a dynamic, semi-public open space. Anchoring this dynamic courtyard are three distinct shared program spaces that encourage interaction among the residents and provide a social breakout space in which to collaborate. These amenities include a recording studio, a social kitchen, and a co-working space. The social courtyard is then expanded vertically via the implementation of generous, open catwalks. Each connects each residence with the amenity spaces and the proportions are exaggerated at unit entrances which provides each apartment with a distinct front patio space. The openness of the walkways also allows for a social connection between floors. The typical plan for the configuration is mutable, but always in a linear parti. Every unit terminates in a generous private patio off of the living space which spans the width of the building wing. Beyond providing desirable living spaces, these patios provide an additional climate control factor for the design. The private patios also create openings in the mass for natural ventilation throughout the entire structure. Their proximity also fosters community engagement among the residents of the building, connecting the private open spaces to each other and to the semi-public courtyard space.

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