A collaborative entry with Neighbourhood to the LA:Low Rise ideas open call asking architects and landscape architects to help imagine appealing and sustainable new models of low-rise, multi-unit housing, to promote housing affordability, new paths to homeownership, and innovative models of sustainable residential architecture in Los Angeles.
Our submission received an Honourable Mention, from almost 400 international submissions.
At the heart of our proposal for eight homes and retail space sits a productive communal garden from which all eight homes are accessed. On the street corner, an adaptive public outdoor space, managed by the resident group and equipped with stands for exchange and enterprise, allows the social, physical and wellbeing benefits derived from the growing and sharing of produce within our new community to be extended to the neighborhood beyond.
Our proposal, ‘Grow-Rise’, evolves the arrangement of the popular ‘bungalow court’ typology to create larger and more varied accommodation over two storeys, with clear design principles permitting reconfigured responses to specific site conditions, resident groups and localities.
The success of the project comes from an ongoing collaborative relationship between Morris + Company and Neighbourhood, driving innovative thinking on future models of housing.
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Neighbourhood
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