When homelessness increases, the amount of affordable housing buildings and climate astros is increasingly stagnating the people who are ticking for cities in the USA to innovate their housing construction.
The city of Los Angeles recently decided to contact a larger pool of experts in its first “small loose, big effects”. The goal was to design architects, designers and students, apartment concepts for free land across the city.
With 356 entries from over 36 countries, the organizers of the competition – the Los Angeles' laboratory, the Los Angeles research center in Los Angeles and non -profit La4la – hoped to collect some new solutions, especially after the fire at the beginning of this year.
“Los Angeles has a rich history of the housing innovation and the pioneer of new living models, but in recent years we have tried to find a way forward,” says a website for the competition. “This competition shows a clear way that you make Angelenos' ownership more accessible across the city.”
The winnings will act as blueprints for developers to build on small land, Dana Cuff recently told the New York Times. Cuff is a professor at the UCLA, director of the university's city laboratory and one of the organizers of the competition.
The designers were asked to develop their projects with the intention of building around 4,000 “unusual parcels of less than a quarter of the morning” all over the city. The plan, she said, be it to break the profit concepts on the ground by next summer.
“We have to see what Las is possible near the future,” said Cuff in a press release for the UCLA.
“By bringing together the best architects, developers and builders, we can invent a new generation of” Socal Starter Homes ” – compact, which once dignified from a single house (and) that dignity and joy while respects mother nature.”
A handful of the countless submissions to the competition were selected as a “winner”. The jury selected both student and professional applicant winners and award cash prizes for student submissions, whereby professional winners were given the opportunity to further develop their ideas instead of a cash prize.
On the competitive website, all submissions are cataloged in order to “honor the work we have received and ensure that the public can be inspired by the countless great ideas to build up living space on small land”.
The types of loose were divided into different categories for the competition: gentle density and future together.
In the category of gentle density, the “Infill locations” projects use to create the apartment density. Essentially, these houses would be built up in existing urban areas in existing or unused land, causing the gaps between buildings.
A award -winning project in this category are joint steps by companies Word and SSK based in Berkeley or Los Angeles.
Shared steps is created with a modular design, with a series of three separate “levels” buildings that originally appear as a residential unit, but actually contain three three -story buildings and three accessories.
“In contrast to typical duplexes or town houses, the unique architecture and the thoughtful mix of the project for innovative owner structures are suitable,” say the designers in a statement.
The designers imagine that 25% of the units would be reserved for housing providers in the municipality, while the other north and flexible units could be single -family houses or commercial space.
“The tiered, modular design creates unmistakable living rooms. The units are well suited for community country trusts and rental agreements,” added the designers.
Another winning design in the Gentle density category is the SndBox company, based in Kelowna, Canada. The designers here built a “Misfit” package of land and divided a small, irregular property into two separate pieces. Each section contains a primary unit, a younger accessory unit and a separate living unit.
The units rise to the site of the property and thus give its meaning to the “chord eggs” names.
In addition, the designers presented improved fire protection, whereby each unit fulfills sprinkler, fire -rated and non -flammable siding or exceeds the requirements of the building models.
“This strategy enables the buildings to bring together closer together than typical distant units,” explain the designers: “Take the best of tight setbacks and restrictions on height without affecting life safety.”
The other competitive category, a common future, concentrated on designs in the area of apartment or condominiums that are ideal to build close locations on the Los Angeles Boulevards.
A winner in this category, common reasons from Austin Sandy Architects in Alamo, California, uses mass wood columns. The columns are distributed on a 30 times 15 foot grid, which can absorb modular units with one and two bedrooms that are configured at different locations, scales and density.
Mass wood is a building material with a lower carbon and is also fire -proof by nature. In addition, all other components of the central core of the building, including wall panels, floors and roof bonds, are designed for a prefabricated system for the fast building on site, which reduces labor costs and shortened the schedules to build the housing even faster.
“The consistent network offers structural clarity and design flexibility without affecting the architectural quality,” write the designers. “The system is built for changes and is both resilient and adaptable.”
Another selection in this category is terrace paths designed by Jonah Coeharff and Kaitlin Faherty from Boston and NYC.
Terrace Ways uses an existing alley to create an expansion of a building that “brings some elements of traditional single -family houses to heaven”.
Essentially, apartments on the first floor of the building offer accessible houses with large balconies. At the top are these duplex maisonettes that act as a starter home option.
In the floors four to six, the building is expanding in two -story houses from Double Decker, with flexible degrees below. This makes them ideal for families with several companies, home companies or non -traditional financing.
In the middle of all of these designs there are climatic-conscious common rooms, such as a common terrace, lawn, joint project room and green roofs, including rainwater conquest, solar collectors and composting.
“Terrace paths are the future of the dense climatic life. Converting the amenities of the single -family house, different unit types reflect the variety of potential homeowners of LA,” say the designers.
“Terrace paths organized as a repeatable 15-foot bays between the front and rear books can adapt many different lengths to narrow.”
While these are only four examples of the hundreds of project proposals in competition, they represent the wealth of possibilities that exist when the best in business with a common mission is together.
“The victorious architects and designers show us how much multi-family house, which can be reached on small land in contemporary, looks like the fire angel,” said Cuff in a statement when the winners were announced.
The mayor Karen Bass also interfered.
“The city's architectural community heard and reacted to my call when they came together to produce exciting, high -quality and realizable design ideas for new first houses in Los Angeles,” said Bass.
“I am deeply proud of the design that we have here at home in Los Angeles.”
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Header image with the kind permission of Austin Sandy Architects