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26 Point 2 Apartments
26 Point 2 Apartments
Long Beach, CA, United States
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Other Projects by Michael Maltzan Architecture
26 Point 2 Apartments
Long Beach, CA, United States
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2023
SIZE
25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft
BUDGET
$10M - 50M
26 Point 2 Apartments is a five-story permanent supportive housing development designed for the nonprofit Excelerate Housing Group along the heterogeneous and highly infrastructural corridor of the Pacific Coast Highway in Long Beach, California. The project occupies a site positioned between two dramatically different contexts: a landscape of oil tanks and industrial infrastructure to the east, and a low-scale residential neighborhood to the west. Rather than mediating between these conditions through contrast or separation, the building seeks to compress and interweave them, forming a microcosm of the surrounding city within a single architectural framework.
The building is organized around a central light-filled courtyard that anchors the residential community and modulates the project’s massing. Along the Pacific Coast Highway, the housing forms a tall, urban façade that engages the scale and intensity of the roadway. Moving westward, the building steps down in height to align with the adjacent one-story houses while opening views toward the ocean for residents. This calibrated shift in scale allows the project to negotiate between infrastructure and neighborhood with continuity rather than rupture.
A required at-grade parking level beneath the apartments—typically underutilized—is reimagined as a shared community plaza, with supportive program spaces organized along its edges. Between the Pacific Coast Highway and this plaza, indoor social and communal spaces are gathered beneath a pitched roof form that borrows its scale from the surrounding commercial buildings and appears embedded within the front façade. Color operates as an active architectural material, visually linking the project to the eclectic commercial landscape of the highway while shaping transitions between public, social, and residential spaces.
The project achieves LEED Gold certification through an integrated set of sustainability strategies, including high-efficiency mechanical systems, solar hot water, high-albedo roofing, natural ventilation, operable windows, and occupant-controlled lighting. On-site water treatment, permeable paving, and native, drought-tolerant landscaping further reduce environmental impact while conserving water resources.
The building is organized around a central light-filled courtyard that anchors the residential community and modulates the project’s massing. Along the Pacific Coast Highway, the housing forms a tall, urban façade that engages the scale and intensity of the roadway. Moving westward, the building steps down in height to align with the adjacent one-story houses while opening views toward the ocean for residents. This calibrated shift in scale allows the project to negotiate between infrastructure and neighborhood with continuity rather than rupture.
A required at-grade parking level beneath the apartments—typically underutilized—is reimagined as a shared community plaza, with supportive program spaces organized along its edges. Between the Pacific Coast Highway and this plaza, indoor social and communal spaces are gathered beneath a pitched roof form that borrows its scale from the surrounding commercial buildings and appears embedded within the front façade. Color operates as an active architectural material, visually linking the project to the eclectic commercial landscape of the highway while shaping transitions between public, social, and residential spaces.
The project achieves LEED Gold certification through an integrated set of sustainability strategies, including high-efficiency mechanical systems, solar hot water, high-albedo roofing, natural ventilation, operable windows, and occupant-controlled lighting. On-site water treatment, permeable paving, and native, drought-tolerant landscaping further reduce environmental impact while conserving water resources.
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