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Santa Monica Blvd Apartments
Santa Monica Blvd Apartments
Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Santa Monica Blvd Apartments
Los Angeles, CA, United States
The client's brief called for a spatially-innovative design for this project, which is situated on a tight site in East Hollywood at the corner of Santa Monica Blvd and two alleys, just west of Silverlake.
The design of the building's form takes cues from LA's pioneering California modern architecture. A subtle inflection of its stepped facade gesturess to its historic public library neighbor to the west, a Carnegie Library that is LA’s second oldest public library. Articulation of the building is designed to establish a dialogue with both the immediate East Hollywood context and larger context of Los Angeles. The facade plays with a tension between flatness and depth, deploying a system of staggered white plaster facade modules which create windows as gaps between them.
A strategic removal of facade modules creates a network of outdoor living spaces: two horizontal covered patio voids meet two vertical courtyard voids to bring light and air, and indoor/outdoor living to the heart of the building as living spaces of the middle two bedroom units wrap around these courtyard voids.
Next to the glassy entrance lobby along the Boulevard is a small, landscaped terrace. Atop the lobby is a private deck opening off one of the units. A common terrace is carved into the upper part of the north side, capitalizing on views toward the Hollywood Hills.
Operating as a wrapper and a foil to the subtractive space-making of the two courtyards, the facade's design aims for a certain level of abstraction - defining windows as smaller instances of absence of mass. This approach seeks to bring an elevated architectural presence to the familiar stucco ‘dingbat’ mid-rise apartment blocks that populate LA’s boulevards.
The design of the building's form takes cues from LA's pioneering California modern architecture. A subtle inflection of its stepped facade gesturess to its historic public library neighbor to the west, a Carnegie Library that is LA’s second oldest public library. Articulation of the building is designed to establish a dialogue with both the immediate East Hollywood context and larger context of Los Angeles. The facade plays with a tension between flatness and depth, deploying a system of staggered white plaster facade modules which create windows as gaps between them.
A strategic removal of facade modules creates a network of outdoor living spaces: two horizontal covered patio voids meet two vertical courtyard voids to bring light and air, and indoor/outdoor living to the heart of the building as living spaces of the middle two bedroom units wrap around these courtyard voids.
Next to the glassy entrance lobby along the Boulevard is a small, landscaped terrace. Atop the lobby is a private deck opening off one of the units. A common terrace is carved into the upper part of the north side, capitalizing on views toward the Hollywood Hills.
Operating as a wrapper and a foil to the subtractive space-making of the two courtyards, the facade's design aims for a certain level of abstraction - defining windows as smaller instances of absence of mass. This approach seeks to bring an elevated architectural presence to the familiar stucco ‘dingbat’ mid-rise apartment blocks that populate LA’s boulevards.
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