Location: Los Angeles, CA
Date: 2022
Category: Single Family Residential

About this Project:

• Scope: Architects and Interior Architects

• 4 Small Lot Homes That Each Include:

  • 3 Bedrooms

  • 4 Stories

  • 2 Car Garage and Rooftop Terrace

• Unit Size: 2,000 sf

• Lot Size: 5,572 sf

• Rendering: HansonLA

The Loft Residences at Mid-City take on questions of densification and efficiency amidst regional housing shortages. They are the development of four homes from the division of a standard lot into small lots. They work through multiple issues key to a systemic address: finding forms and scales that mediate existing commercial and residential fabrics, creating street-level experiences that are both positive for passing pedestrians and secure for residents, and developing assemblies that lend a sense of character and individuality while also being economically and environmentally prudent.

The solutions that the Loft Residences at Mid-City find are responsive to their immediate contexts and conscientious of manufacturing and material logics. The complex bridges the environment of the single-family houses on its one side and of the commercial corridor on its other side by relying on intimate, residential detailing to break-up the vertical massing that matches adjacent multi-story construction. The project’s street-level design obscures its dedication to the car and embraces the human-scale by internalizing parking and ringing the site with courtyards that line the sidewalk in vegetation and create a barrier between public and private. Living stacks on an additional four levels, organized primarily as open floors divided along kit-of-part inserts for kitchens and bathrooms. Each unit has three bedrooms, two-and-a-half bathrooms, and substantial flex space (including a mezzanine, recreation room, and multiple balconies and decks). Each unit is made unique, then, through offsets and shifts in the façade apertures and undulating pitches of the parapet.