MIXED-USE & PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING
CREATING ENVIRONMENTS THAT ENRICH PUBLIC LIFE
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FIRM INTRODUCTION
GGA Design Studios LEED GOLD Certified
Creating environments that enrich public life Gonzalez Goodale Architects was established in 1980 with a mission to enrich our collective public life through design. Creating built environments that reinforce social engagement and support the advancement of our civic, education, and community-based clients is at the core of all we do. Our team is passionate about our work. We aspire to be recognized as an innovative, humancentered architectural design and professional practice, fueled by our diversity. Every project is the result of collaborative partnerships and multi-disciplinary research and design. From new public schools in urban Los Angeles, to hillside residential communities for the formerly homeless, we seek design solutions that deeply and positively respond to context and reinforce our clients’ missions. We live and grow by these three core values in the work that we do, the people we partner with and the built environments we create.
Pursue Quality
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Honor our Commitments
Day Street Apartments New Tenants on Move In Day LA Family Housing w/ Gonzalez Goodale Architects
A diverse, human-centered architectural design practice With a long standing commitment to design and quality assurance, the firm has a total of 38 employees including eleven licensed Architects, a Certified Access Specialist (CASp) and a well rounded staff of dedicated and diverse designers. Beyond its three Principal Directors, the firm is further guided by a committed group of Associate Principal and Associate leadership. S-Corp Ownership Ali Barar, AIA Harry Drake, AIA CASp Armando Gonzalez, FAIA
Principals Ali Barar, AIA Harry Drake, AIA, CASp Staci Nesbitt, AIA, LEED AP
Managing Principal Ali Barar, AIA abarar@ggarch.com
Associate Principals Mary Wu, AIA Dennis Smith, AIA Hannah Trimbath
Number of Employees 38
Associates Annie Hong, AIA Jin Kim, LEED AP Robert Gonzales
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EXCHANGE AND SOCIALIZATION
FLEMINGS RESTAURANT
LA FAMILY HOUSING CAMPUS
SISTERS OF SOCIAL SERVICE CAMPUS
CALTECH STUDENT CENTER
LAUSD - RFK COMMUNITY SCHOOLS, MURAL PROGRAM
THE CITY IS THE SITE
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CALTECH HAMEETMENT CENTER
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AFFORDABLE, PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE,
Day Street Apartments New Tenants on Move In Day LA Family Housing w/ Gonzalez Goodale Architects
Recognized leaders in affordable and supportive housing In recent past, we have developed:
Over 1500 Units of Affordable Housing Over 500 Units of Permanent Supportive Housing Over 600 Beds of Crisis and Bridge Housing
Gonzalez Goodale Architects has a long history of working in partnership with supportive housing and service provider organizations to create quality housing solutions. Led by our Principal Ali Barar, AIA, our housing studio is widely recognized as a leader in design of wholistic and healing environments. Our firm is active in the development of permanent supportive, transitional, and interim housing throughout Los Angeles. We have been fortunate enough to partner with an expansive list of affordable housing developers, including the following: A Community Of Friends Abode Communities AMCAL Multi-Housing, Inc. Clifford Beers Housing East LA Community Corporation (ELACC) LA Family Housing Linc Housing Meta Housing Path Ventures
Retirement Housing Foundation The East Los Angeles Community Union Thomas Safran & Associates Union Station Homeless Services Villa Esperanza Services Wakeland Housing
AND BRIDGE HOUSING
LA FAMILY HOUSING - THE CAMPUS GROUNDBREAKING (L-R) FORMER COUNTY SUPERVISOR ZEV YAROSLAVSKY, IRMAS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’S MATTHEW IRMAS, LA MAYOR ERIC GARCETTI, 6TH DISTRICT COUNCIL MEMBER NURY MARTINEZ, LAFH CEO STEPHANIE KLASKY-GAMER, COUNTY SUPERVISOR SHEILA KUEHL, CONGRESSMAN TONY CARDENAS
Engagement & Leadership with Homelessness In California For almost 40 years our firm has been advocating and designing for the homeless and most vulnerable in our communities. Informed by an integration of supportive services within housing, our built and continuing design work with nonprofit developers and service providers stands as recognized benchmarks for quality, care, and the way forward in ending homelessness. Beyond our work in permanent supportive housing, Gonzalez Goodale Architects is actively engaged with local jurisdictions to develop more immediate solutions to housing. We are currently one of two firms working with the City of Los Angeles and Mayor Eric Garcetti’s “A Bridge Home” program, developing temporary emergency shelters on City-owned properties. This work involves an intensive effort not only on technical and operational design but collaboration with City and Council leadership to steward the projects through community engagement and buyin.
The Campus for LA Family Housing is the model for the City in ending homelessness. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti
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RICH OFFERING OF OPEN SPACE & COMMUNITY Palo Verde Apartments
CLIENT: LA Family Housing SCOPE: 30,200 square feet; 60 affordable units CONSTRUCTION BUDGET: $10M
Palo Verde provides a permanent, secure housing environment for the chronically homeless with mental disabilities. It provides an identifiable home and a rich offering of open space and community support within its site. The project conforms to community expectations of Mediterranean Revival architecture, while responding to both limited construction budgets and a commitment by developer and client for a fresh, contemporary architectural expression.
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Winner of the 2018 SCANPH ‘Transformative Communities Development’ award http://www.scanph.org/homes-within-reach
A RICH SUPPORTIVE ENVIRONMENT LA Family Housing Mixed-Use Services & Housing Campus CLIENT: LA Family Housing SCOPE: Full campus masterplan, entitlement, and implementation CONSTRUCTION BUDGET: $30M
In addition to providing permanent supportive housing for those with long-term disabilities, the L A Family Housing Campus is designed to accommodate a network of services that address needs across the northwestern Los Angeles region. These include a medical clinic that delivers medical, wellness, dental, eye, and mental health services; job center; housing center; enterprise spaces; a community/training room; and an area for various regional service partners to provide their programs. Developed around a central courtyard, this complex of Housing, Services, and LAFH Administration, is intended to offer the chronically homeless not only opportunities to develop a firmer foundation, but also to provide a welcoming sanctuary. The open-air welcoming environment allows for various tiers of socialization and privacy, ranging from extroverted gathering spaces to introverted gardens. Based on the premise that human interactions stem from spirit and attitude, a rich and sheltering environment is a first step in establishing calm and acceptance.
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FUSING TRADITION WITH CONTEMPORARY NEEDS Day Street Permanent Supportive Housing
CLIENT: LA Family Housing SCOPE: 30,500 square feet 47 efficiency units & 1 manager unit COMPLETED in 2016
This project is pocketed on a cul-de-sac with two- and three-story residential neighbors and abuts the back lots of commercial development along Tujunga’s Foothill Boulevard corridor. Craftsman-style architecture, a seminal response to building in Southern California foothills, is the primary architectural vocabulary of the neighborhood. In addition to the special planning challenges of affordable supportive housing, (maximized economies, sociability, security, and support), local neighborhood groups advocated for sensitivity to the Craftsman style architecture. The charge to be mindful of this tradition—a style applied to single-family residences with a high level of articulation and craft—formed the principal challenge. Working with the natural topography, the design steps up from the street via a terraced courtyard, creating a high-volume space for the sidewalk-facing community functions. This massing serves as a counterpoint to the disciplined rhythms of the modular living units. The individual expression of these units creates intimacy and warmth that fuses tradition with contemporary needs. Specifically responsive elements include the rhythmic detail of lap siding, balconies with bracketed eyebrows and wood slat rails, wood slat lattice screens around the courtyard, and casual rhythms of small and large windows.
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VETERANS’ HILLSIDE COMMUNITY Sylmar Terrace Apartments
CLIENT: LA Family Housing/County of Los Angeles SCOPE: 49 Units Of Supportive Veterans Apartments
Summit View Apartments will be new construction of 49 units of permanent supportive housing. The proposed project will consist of four buildings, ranging from two to three stories, connected by walkways and interspersed with a terraced community garden down the hillside. The four buildings span out of a communal courtyard to give the property a centralized connective space. Locally inspired materials of stucco, wood, concrete, metal and glass are composed in clean and contemporary horizontal and vertical lines to help bring scale and definition to the project. The landscape element is an integral component of proposed development and integrates elements of ‘Biofilia’ to have a restorative impact both to the site and to the health of the future residents. The site plan and building configuration are designed to afford every unit full advantage of the beautiful surrounding vistas, daylight and natural ventilation. Multiple and landscaped courtyards, pathways and shaded outdoor gathering places infuse the fan shaped configuration of the site plan and connect the residents to the outdoor throughout the day and as a part of the routine building use.
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COMBATTING GENTRIFICATION METRO TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT Cielito Lindo Apartments Phase 1 & 2
CLIENT: East LA Community Corporation (ELACC) SCOPE: Phase 1 and 2 5,000sf commercial space, 80 units CONSTRUCTION BUDGET: $28M Phase 1 completed Spring 2018, Phase 2 to be completed December 2019.
Due to ELACC’s Equitable Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) community benefits campaign, ELACC is pioneering part of an initiative to develop transit-oriented communities just a few steps from Metro’s Soto Gold Line Station. Cielito Lindo is a key example of ELACC’s model of community development, helping address the underserved community of Boyle Heights and contribute to the critical need for more affordable housing. Cielito Lindo also combats gentrification using ELACC’s model of community development, which prioritizes low-income families through purchasing land for community control and building permanent quality affordable housing. Almost two-thirds of the tenants at Cielito Lindo were already from the eastside; ELACC helped provide them more stability and the opportunity to stay in their community Both Phase 1 and 2 provide affordable family housing. In addition to one- and twobedroom units, the project provides community spaces and resident services, including: large community room with kitchen and storage, laundry, open-air courtyard, resident service offices, on-site property manager and office, public lobby and on-site parking.
Honorable Mention 2018 SCANPH Homes Within Reach Awards http://www.scanph.org/homes-within-reach
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COMMUNITY SPACES & RESIDENT SERVICES Whittier Boulevard Family Apartments, East LA CLIENT: East LA Community Corporation (ELACC) SCOPE: 25 permanent supportive housing units, community room, open-air courtyard CONSTRUCTION BUDGET: $10M
This project provides 25 units of permanent supportive housing for families that are homeless or at-risk of homelessness and that include children aged prenatal to 5 years. Along with one- and two-bedroom units, the project provides community spaces and resident services, including: large community room with kitchen and storage, laundry, open-air courtyard, resident service offices, on-site property manager and office, public lobby and on-site parking. The project mitigates the commercial frontage along Whittier Blvd through its configuration, overall program distribution and building articulation. Distinct massing, a mixture of textures and colors, and lush, native landscaping create a unique identity, pleasing rhythm and welcoming exterior. sustainability and safety are achieved through thoughtful selection of systems and materials.
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Los Lirios – in concert with the adjacent Cielito Lindo developments – will provide a comprehensively-design environment that avoids repetition and celebrates both social and formal diversity. It will benefit the First & Soto METRO station with quality habitation, vital pedestrian life, and iconic backdrop to the Plaza, and a dramatic gateway to all radial points. It will be a project that both serves and expands METRO ridership by expanding the urban fabric in a way that is both vigorous and sensitive to the quality of city we are collaboratively creating.
A RADIAL URBAN GATEWAY FEASIBILITY STUDY & DESIGN
Los Lirios Mixed-Use 1st & Soto METRO Development CLIENT: collaboration with Bridge Housing and East LA Community Corporation (ELACC) SCOPE: 130 Units, 15,500sf retail 5 stories over 2 podium
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NATIONAL CITY WORKFORCE HOUSING COMMUNITY REVITILIZATION FEASIBILITY STUDY & DESIGN Wakeland Housing CLIENT: Wakeland Housing SCOPE: Phase 1 - 205 units of townohomes, garden stlye apartments, mid and high-rise apartments Total Phases - 1000 units of mixed building type and community amenities including parks, retail, and daycare centers
The existing apartment community, National City Park Apartments, houses approximately 700 adults and 1,000 children in 456 units. It is located on 22.6 acres adjacent to D Avenue in National City. The community was built in 1968 with funding from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The primary goal of the development is to advance FHC’s (Family Housing Corporation) mission of providing affordable housing and services to its current and future low to moderate income residents, including families and veterans. PROPOSED REDEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES: • Phased approach to increased (doubling of) density • Creating a stronger development identity and presence • Strengthening connections with the public street and sidewalk • Internalizing density and mass with appropriate transition to surrounding neighborhood • •
Creating a strong network of pedestrian and vehicular circulation, anchored by communal open space and amenities linking with the larger community Offering a variety of housing types( town homes, garden style apartments, mid- and high-rise apartments) to support the diverse needs of the community
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URBAN DENSITY AND AMENITY Whittier Boulevard Mixed-Use Developments A&B
Situated along on a busy but underserved stretch of Whittier Boulevard, the jointly designed and developed mixed-use sites bring a much needed focus on density and ammenity to the surrounding Downey community. With a total of over 100 mixed-count affordable housing units being instantly added to the commercially under-utilized community of mostly single family residences, a need to provide economic development through convenient retail outlets was immediately recognized. While providing access to secured green space through balconies and community courtyard spaces, the two buildings provide a total of 4,000sf of retail and office space ideal for small business and local economic development. Block A is currently under construction and expected in late 2019
CLIENT: Meta Housing Corporation SCOPE: 2 Sites Total of 113 Affordable Housing Units, Retail Space, and Community Room.
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Los Lirios – in concert with the adjacent Cielito Lindo developments – will provide a comprehensively-design environment that avoids repetition and celebrates both social and formal diversity. It will benefit the First & Soto METRO station with quality habitation, vital pedestrian life, and iconic backdrop to the Plaza, and a dramatic gateway to all radial points. It will be a project that both serves and expands METRO ridership by expanding the urban fabric in a way that is both vigorous and sensitive to the quality of city we are collaboratively creating.
A RADIAL URBAN GATEWAY
Los Lirios Mixed-Use 1st & Soto METRO Development CLIENT: collaboration with Bridge Housing and East LA Community Corporation (ELACC) SCOPE: 130 Units, 15,500sf retail 5 stories over 2 podium
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GOLDLINE TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT 1st & Lorena Mixed-Use Development
CLIENT: A Community of Friends (ACOF) SCOPE: Sixty-three affordable housing units; 5,000 sf retail space; semi-subterranean parking
This transit-oriented development is located on the east L.A. extension of the Metro Goldline, and situated between two Boyle Heights landmarks—El Mercado and the Evergreen Cemetery - and will offer community amenities desired by the neighborhood in a design that complements this highly visible intersection. On the ground level, this project extends the line of commercial uses west along First Street. A transparent retail façade and entrances along First Street make this location inviting and identifiable during the day or night while a pronounced pedestrian entrance at the corner defines an urban edge. The first floor includes a lobby with a manager office, a variety of community rooms, residential services, and vertical circulation leading to the apartments above. Here, the residential component wraps around a landscaped courtyard that provides a central outdoor, shared space open to the west towards the quiet, park-like space of Evergreen Cemetery.
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COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE RIVERSIDE MISSION-HERITAGE PLAZA
Located within the historic Mission Inn corrider of Riverside, the Mission Heritage Plaza will serve as a transitionary bridge between the accelerating revitilization of downtown district and its relatively low density single family residential neighbors. Concieved by the Fair Housing Council of Riverside (FHCRC), the project goals included: • Provide affordable housing and enduring community assets • Provide administrative operations space for the Council to further expand the Council’s goals of eliminating housing discrimination in the County • Create a sustainable but equitable source of capital which supports this mission • Create community partnerships which reinforce guiding principle of social justice • Focus these community partnerships into an intellectual depository and asset base for policy research and data collection.
CLIENT: Wakeland Housing SCOPE: 88 units of affordable housing, joint-use community space, administrative offices, ground floor retail, and 3,500sf Civil Rights Institute
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JOINT-USE ART COMMUNITY MOLAA FAMILY APARTMENTS CLIENT: Cesar Chavez Foundation/Museum of Latin American Art SCOPE: 200 Units Of Affordable Family Apartments, Sculpture Garden and Integration into Museum Campus
Working collaboratively with the City of Long Beach, the proposed project includes approximately 200 units of affordable housing within two residential buildings. Building A, located along Alamitos Avenue and 7th Street, provides approximately 160 units configured in a six-story residential structure with two-story walk-up townhomes and flats located on the ground floor. In partnership with the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) the project aims to provides a public art plaza and relocated sculpture garden that reactivates the Museum’s presence along the corner of Alamitos Avenue and 6th Street. The relocation of the sculpture garden to a highly visible area toward the front of the building will serve as a celebration of the museum’s recently acquired permanent collection and provide additional outdoor event space, thereby further engaging and integrating the Downtown Long Beach community.
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JORDAN DOWNS FAMILY APARTMENTS PHASE S2 & S3 COMMUNITY REVITILIZATION FEASIBILITY STUDY & DESIGN CLIENT: Michaels Organization SCOPE: 193 units of mixed typology and unit count of affordable family apartments. (Invited Design-Competition)
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ANGEL VETERANS APARTMENTS ENGAGED COMMUNITY FEASIBILITY STUDY & DESIGN LA Family Housing CLIENT: LA Family Housing SCOPE: 50 Units Of Veterans Permanent Supportive Housing
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HIGH PERFORMANCE SUPPORTIVE HOUSING Cedar Springs Transitional Aged Youth Housing CLIENT: A Community of Friends (ACOF), David & Margaret Youth and Family Services SCOPE: 36 units of supportive TAY housing, community multi-purpose room, retail. LEED Platinum, Living Building Challenge, Net-Zero Energy CONSTRUCTION BUDGET: $12M
A first of its kind in sustainability, the Cedar Springs Apartments were developed to support transitional age youth coming out of the David & Margaret Youth and Family Services campus next door. In addition to housing, the complex provides supportive services, multipurpose community spaces, and a small retail development providing opportunities for employment and fund development. A number of highly sustainable mechanisms and approaches were successfully applied to the project which achieved: • LEED Platinum Certification • Living Building Challenge • Net-Zero Energy Certified • Energy Star Homes CertifiedFirst building in LA County to install a permitted gray water system to flush toilets and to irrigate • First affordable housing project in Southern California that is carbon neutral for operational energy. Cedar Springs is an all electric site (no natural gas, no fossil fuels), offset by near 100% renewable energy
City of LaVerne, Community Design Award, 2016 CARBON NEUTRAL; net zero energy; living building challenge First Housing Project in Southern California with Living Building Challenge Energy Certification
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BRIDGE HOUSING FOR FAMILIES Historic Adaptive Re-Use CLIENT: Union Station Homeless Services SCOPE: 20,000sf adaptive re-use of historic mortuary building
The project consisted of: the historic mortuary; an adjacent retail annex; and a new addition for administrative offices. The shelter offers space to those committed to transition, providing education and counseling. The neighborhood is residential. The challenge was to weave together the three disparate components to suit program needs; to maintain the historic character of the architecture; and to add an inexpensive contemporary facility that would sit comfortably with both the mortuary and the neighborhood. The planning was developed so that the mortuary served for communal space and provided housing for single mothers with children, while the long retail space provided separate housing for complete families. The new administration building forms a courtyard enclosing children’s play, its architecture light, airy, and scaled for both its historic and residential neighbors.
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A HIGH DEGREE OF SUPPORT & ORDER Downtown Mental Health Center
CLIENT County of Los Angeles Department of Public Works SIZE 52,000sf tenant improvement with full A/E design and FF&E services. COMPLETED 2015
The Downtown Mental Health Center is a service facility operated by the County of Los Angeles Department of Public Works located in the skid row district. After its conversion from an existing parking garage, Gonzalez Goodale Architect’s primary design challenge was creating interiors with safe and secure yet comforting and supportive space out of a structure comprised of simple concrete slab and column construction . The 52,000sf office and treatment space design opted to reflect its urban setting through the embrace of raw materials and structure while at the same time softening the often times stressful and threatening institutional users experience. The approach allowed mechanical and infrastructural elements to be integrated into the environment in a unassuming and cohesive manner leaving room for effective and efficient use of the limited space. Furnishings and finishes selected provide comfort and support while the programming and user considerations provide clear direction to a space in need of a high degree of order and security. These considerations include signage, color selection, and wayfinding methods which minimize unsupervised patient activities and interactions.
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A BRIDGE HOME - EMERGENCY SHELTER City of Los Angeles
CLIENT: City of Los Angeles, Office of the Mayor, Bureau of Engineering SCOPE: 24 Female Beds, 40 Male Beds, 6 Couples Beds Administrative Offices And Services, Hygiene Stations, Dining Space, Outdoor Communal Space, Outdoor Pet Area And Kennels
By creatively using a previously improved and developed City owned property, much of the associated site and utility considerations were predetermined and abbreviated in design and cost consideration. The former dog training park provided a fortuitous set of constraints and already developed amenities including lighting, artificial turf, security, developed landscape buffer, and parking. The resulting site maximizes on the less than 1/4 acre space by buffering the community spaces from the industrial context, providing services and intake directly at the street, and minimizing parking requirements by leveraging proximity to local transportation lines.
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A BRIDGE HOME - CD-2 NAVIGATION CENTER San Fernando Valley
CLIENT: City of Los Angeles, Office of the Mayor, Bureau of Engineering
Located on an linear site of overhead high-voltage lines and utility easements, traditional uses and permanent buildings were all but unusable.
SCOPE: 1 acre site with homeless connection services, personal storage, Hygiene Stations, job training multi-purpose room, Outdoor Communal Space and gardens
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ADAPTIVE RE-USE BRIDGE HOUSING Canoga Park Bridge Housing
CLIENT: County of Los Angeles SCOPE: Adaptive re-use of 16,000sf industrial building 79 beds, Administrative Offices And Services, Hygiene Stations, Dining Space, Outdoor Communal Space, Outdoor Pet Area and Kennels
In partnership with District 3 LA County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl’s office, a successful program and model for bridge housing developed by Gonzalez Goodale Architects and LA Family Housing was applied to the Canoga Park Bridge Housing and Navigation Center. After careful analysis of structure, systems, and infrastructure on the existing 16,000sf industrial building a program and budget were established which met the needs of both the user population and client requirements. With close proximity to public transportation which can connect users to nearby services, the program was focused to maximize sleeping and safe outdoor social areas providing the recuperative environment needed.
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URBAN MIXED-USE PROJECTS
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We have been fortunate enough to partner with an expansive list of quality developers, including the following: A Community Of Friends
Meta Housing
Abode Communities
Paseo Colorado
AMCAL Multi-Housing, Inc.
Path Ventures
Clifford Beers Housing
RD Olson
Cypress Development
Retirement Housing Foundation
DDR Corp.
Shopcore One-Colorado
East LA Community Corporation (ELACC)
The East Los Angeles Community Union
LA Family Housing
Union Station Homeless Services
Linc Housing Marriott Residence M+D Properties
Thomas Safran & Associates Villa Esperanza Services Wakeland Housing
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URBAN INFILL MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT One Green Street, Pasadena CLIEN T: M+D P rope rt ie s S CO PE: 58,000 s qu are fe e t F u ll A/E s er vices inclu din g sp a ce planning and te n an t i mp rovement des ign CO NSTRUC TION BU D G ET: $1 5M
Sited in the heart of old Pasadena at a prime corner site - Fair Oaks and Green Street - and diagonal from the renowned Green Hotel Apartments, the new building falls within a compound of historic buildings under a common ownership. The existing buildings on the site held “façade easements,” and were smaller in scale than the proposed project. The project addresses scale by following the precedent of the Green Hotel and the tall buildings further north at Fair Oaks and Colorado, essentially ‘bookending’ a block of smaller buildings. It further addresses scale and historic issues by stepping back from its historic neighbors, thereby creating an extension of Old Pasadena’s alley system in to midblock. The new restaurant and Class A office space energize Green street and lightly hold the corner with a glassy, contemporary form that maintains the rhythms, textures, and guidelines of Old Pasadena.
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MODERNIST TRADITION IN OLD PASADENA Fleming’s Restaurant
CLIENT: Arroyo Group, LLC SCOPE: 6,800sf restaurant with full commercial kitchen & bar, patio seating CONSTRUCTION BUDGET: $6M
Set along a block-long stretch of Colorado Boulevard that breaks the pedestrian continuity between Old Pasadena to the west and Midtown/Civic Center to the east, the new Fleming’s Pasadena restaurant serves as an architecturally and planning transitionary ‘pavilion’ building to the 11-story precast-clad office building and a fountain plaza on the northerly side. Special challenges include the pedestrian unfriendliness of the block, the diminutive scale of the restaurant in its mid-rise context, the Modernist/Classical interface, and a zero-setback requirement for the zoning district. Additionally successful approaches included: •
A publicly active program that engages both pedestrians and destination seekers. Correspondingly: a building of maximum transparency.
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Set back on a pedestrian-usable plinth that lends it an ease, presence, and balance in regard to its neighbor. (This required challenging the zero-setback zoning and introducing outdoor plinth seating, weather-covered by the roof canopy).
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A color/material simplicity that supports the transparency and helps it serve as a foil to both its historic and Modernist neighbors: Off-white Venetian plaster, gunmetal gray metal cladding of structural members and sunscreen.
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PROVIDING A POWERFUL IDENTITY Marriott Residence Inn Pasadena
Located on a large transitional site that bridges historic Old Pasadena with the 210 freeway to the north, this 5-story hotel is of an overall mass and scale to provide powerful identity to the freeway, while maintaining articulation and detail appropriate to pedestrian life. Engaging the long narrow site with a series of linear pavilions, the project gestures to both the Mediterranean Revival and the classical roots of Old Pasadena, while retaining its own crisp and minimal character.
CLIENT: RD Olson SCOPE: 180 keys, Fairoaks Avenue / Walnut Street CONSTRUCTION BUDGET: $30M
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A CULTURAL & ECONOMIC CENTER
Paseo Colorado Block A-D Mixed-Use & Commercial Revitilization
CLIEN T: Cy press Equ it ie s S COP E: 85,000s f, 7 7 con dominium unit s ove r 2 l evels of retail, Co lorado Bo ulevard / Los Roble s Ave. CO NSTRUC TION BU D G ET: $50M Estimated
Replacing the existing, abandoned Macy’s at the east end of this ever-changing mall, this project drives the east-west Paseo through to the city sidewalk system, flanked on one side by 6-story hotel and on the other by a 7-story mixed-use retail/residential building. The project re-connects with Pasadena’s early 20th Century Bennett Plan, which envisioned Pasadena not as a quaint string of one and two-story buildings, but, rather, as a robust, growing cultural and economic center that would extend in all directions with the kind of 6 and 7 story datum line that marked the heart of pedestrian cities like Paris and Rome. Cont. - The design fuses a contemporary retail / restaurant program - broad expanses of 2-story glass - with the classically-focused spirit of the proximate Pasadena Civic Center. A series of emphatically vertical pavilions, stitched together with revealed balconies, are capped by weather-covered penthouse terraces.
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REDEFINING HOSPITALITY IN OLD PASADENA Hyatt Place Hotel
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COMPACT DEVELOPMENT PATTERNS Walnut & Allen Mixed-Use Development
CLIENT: AMCAL Multi-Housing
Sited at the intersection of Walnut and Allen, as the latter street approaches the 210
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freeway, this site, its immediate and extending neighborhood represents southern Californian automotive culture at its least dense and in its least pedestrian-friendly terms. Architecturally, the main commercial context is emphatically without disciplining rhythm or character, other than its ad hoc service-oriented functionalism and basic industrial construction
SCOPE: 127 1 & 2 bedroom units, 6 live/work units, 13,500 sf commercial and community use, 234 subterranean parking spaces
COMPACT DEVELOPMENT PATTERNS The project fully leverages the proximate Gold Line Allen Station by maximizing allowable density, burying minimum required parking within the sub-grade and interior of the project, and providing a mix of pedestrian-oriented sidewalk arcades, storefronts, and uses. INTEGRATE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE. The threading of the sidewalk directly through the ground level courtyard, with the cafe being the invitational gesture, will provide pedestrians with opportunities for a landscape respite from Allen and Walnut, with additional views into the corner retail and an internal courtyard Live-Work unit. M I X E D - U S E & P E R M A N E N T S U P P O R T I V E H O U S I N G 63
CITY OF GARDENS DEVELOPMENT Altadena & Mohawk Townhome Development
CLIENT: Herald Investment Company SCOPE: 18 units (14 two-story townhomes, 4 studios) CONSTRUCTION BUDGET: $12M
In a balance between project density, (appropriate to economics and site activation), and adequate outdoor area/garden space, the 18-unit option was selected - 14 of the units 2-story townhomes and the remaining four (forming the back area 3rd story) will be studios. A contemporary style was proposed whose materiality and color tones will be resonant with the long traditions of both Craftsman architecture and wood-centered developer architecture in the larger neighborhood and the City. This approach - which will also combine porches and terraces with outdoor balconies - all in a well-setback setting that will allow rich tree cover and dappled sun/shade - will result in a project that is particular to Pasadena in both style and climate response.
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SOUTH PASADENA MIXED-USE REVITILIZATION Fair Oaks & Mission Urban Infill
CLIENT: Genton Properties (developer)
The proposed South Pasadena Downtown Revitalization Project (project) is located in the City of South Pasadena, at a prime corner site - Fair Oaks and Mission Street.
SCOPE: Five scattered building sites to include over 60,000 sf commercial/retail; underground parking; and senior/multi-family residential units.
Approximately 3.5 square miles in area, the project will be a low-density collection of seven buildings served by underground public parking, and highlighted by a town plaza, smaller scale gathering spaces, and pedestrian pathways. It is located within the boundaries of Mission Street, Fair Oaks Avenue, Oxley Street, and Mound Avenue, and also includes the City’s surface parking lot at the corner of Mound Avenue and Hope Street. Surrounding land uses include a variety of commercial,retail, service, residential, and Civic Center uses.
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