Location: 11478 Chandler Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
Architect: Partner-in-Charge, Nerin Kadribegovic, AIA Lehrer Architects LA, Inc
Budget: 3.487 Million
Builder: Ford Construction
MEP Engineer: S&K Engineers
Civil Engineer: Barbara Hall & Associates, PE
Photography: Skyladder and Nerin Kadribegovic, AIA Michael B. Lehrer, FAIA
Awards: Housing HONOR AWARD, The American Institute of Architects, 2022 Award for Excellence in Design, The American Institute of Architects Los Angeles 2021 Honor Award, Los Angeles Business Council 2021
This innovative community project offers an aggressive, appropriately experimental and timely template for improving Los Angeles’ homelessness crisis by transforming a forgotten, oddly shaped infill lot into a 39 one-or-two-person/unit facility for unhoused Angelenos using prefabricated “pallet shelters”. In projects like these design matters, both to uplift residents and to respectfully complete and enhance the neighborhood serving to inspire pride for these projects in a local community. Working in conjunction with multiple city agencies led directly by the Bureau of Engineering, Department of Public Works, and Ford Construction, Nerin Kadribegovic led a team that designed a plan of spatial character, colorful details, and logistical efficiency to create a model community space with a level of design sensibility and beauty not often seen in these types of projects.