The Los Angeles zoning map concentrates commercial activity on to linear corridors that slice through the city’s low rise residential neighborhoods. These corridors are often studded with physical relics of the past -- adaptable structures once devoted to light industrial uses that sit vacant, unable to accommodate the code-minimum parking required to permit the more active uses of the contemporary city.
Parkhouse is situated on two back-to-back 50’x150’ residential parcels, located along an alley directly south of a post-industrial commercial corridor. It operates under the premise that a healthy urban neighborhood requires flexible housing options, climate-sensitive pedestrian infrastructure, and a variety of commercial venues within walking distance.
Parkhouse lifts its multifamily housing program above grade to provide for alley-accessed electric vehicle parking. These surplus stalls are made available for lease to small business owners, who can then activate the adjacent and otherwise dormant commercial corridor with a range of neighborhood-appropriate programming -- thus providing the increased parking that such programming would require.
Parkhouse nestles its street-level building volume between two well-shaded, well-lit, publicly accessible sidewalk gardens. Each garden re-imagines the city’s five-foot planting strip as part of a broader vegetated environment, and is supported by programmed interior space, at the west, by the building’s lobby, and at the east, by a community meeting hall. These generous gardens act as a threshold between the residential fabric and commercial corridor and provide community members a moment to pause within the shade, before continuing on their way.
Parkhouse locates its living quarters one story above grade, along the north edge of a shared, tenant-controlled terrace. Organized to accommodate a range of activities to suit the breadth of the Parkhouse residential community, the East and West ends of this terrace feature vegetation-concealed nooks that frame loosely programmed spaces for light fitness, children’s play, outdoor film viewing, and larger scale dining than any single unit can accommodate. These spaces support the terrace’s central garden program which focuses on communal food production.
The Parkhouse living quarters feature two-story, two-bathroom base units that include a double-height living space, open kitchen-dining area, office nook, and substantial private outdoor landing. Their generous volumetric composition allows occupants to share a living unit while maintaining separation when it is desired. Although these base units are ideal for a small family or roommate-style tenancy, they could also support a smaller occupancy with the desire for a more robust home office as well as a slightly larger family, assuming children share the second bedroom. This example of Parkhouse’s characteristic flexibility is only the beginning. In many Los Angeles neighborhoods, the family unit is larger than three or four, and the desire for generations to live together is ingrained in the very notion of urban life. For this kind of family, Parkhouse offers another level of flexible accommodation. When the demographics of a neighborhood deem it appropriate, the base unit array can be replaced by a hybrid configuration of two-, three-, and four-bedroom units. Within this configuration, larger units offer progressively larger living spaces and inhabitation possibilities to meet the diverse and evolving needs of the multi-generational family.
Parkhouse achieves a zero net carbon classification by generating energy on-site, reducing electrical consumption, employing passive design strategies, reusing water, promoting carbon-free transportation, deploying environmentally friendly materials, encouraging composting, and promoting on-site food production. Paired with the neighborhood-oriented strategies at its core these sustainable building techniques provide a prototype for low rise housing that prioritizes the optimization of human health.
The Los Angeles zoning map concentrates commercial activity on to linear corridors that slice through the city’s low rise residential neighborhoods. These corridors are often studded with physical relics of the past -- adaptable structures once devoted to light industrial uses that sit vacant, unable to accommodate the code-minimum parking required to permit the more active uses of the contemporary city.
Parkhouse is situated on two back-to-back 50’x150’ residential parcels, located along an alley directly south of a post-industrial commercial corridor. It operates under the premise that a healthy urban neighborhood requires flexible housing options, climate-sensitive pedestrian infrastructure, and a variety of commercial venues within walking distance.
Parkhouse lifts its multifamily housing program above grade to provide for alley-accessed electric vehicle parking. These surplus stalls are made available for lease to small business owners, who can then activate the adjacent and otherwise dormant commercial corridor with a range of neighborhood-appropriate programming -- thus providing the increased parking that such programming would require.
Parkhouse nestles its street-level building volume between two well-shaded, well-lit, publicly accessible sidewalk gardens. Each garden re-imagines the city’s five-foot planting strip as part of a broader vegetated environment, and is supported by programmed interior space, at the west, by the building’s lobby, and at the east, by a community meeting hall. These generous gardens act as a threshold between the residential fabric and commercial corridor and provide community members a moment to pause within the shade, before continuing on their way.
Parkhouse locates its living quarters one story above grade, along the north edge of a shared, tenant-controlled terrace. Organized to accommodate a range of activities to suit the breadth of the Parkhouse residential community, the East and West ends of this terrace feature vegetation-concealed nooks that frame loosely programmed spaces for light fitness, children’s play, outdoor film viewing, and larger scale dining than any single unit can accommodate. These spaces support the terrace’s central garden program which focuses on communal food production.
The Parkhouse living quarters feature two-story, two-bathroom base units that include a double-height living space, open kitchen-dining area, office nook, and substantial private outdoor landing. Their generous volumetric composition allows occupants to share a living unit while maintaining separation when it is desired. Although these base units are ideal for a small family or roommate-style tenancy, they could also support a smaller occupancy with the desire for a more robust home office as well as a slightly larger family, assuming children share the second bedroom. This example of Parkhouse’s characteristic flexibility is only the beginning. In many Los Angeles neighborhoods, the family unit is larger than three or four, and the desire for generations to live together is ingrained in the very notion of urban life. For this kind of family, Parkhouse offers another level of flexible accommodation. When the demographics of a neighborhood deem it appropriate, the base unit array can be replaced by a hybrid configuration of two-, three-, and four-bedroom units. Within this configuration, larger units offer progressively larger living spaces and inhabitation possibilities to meet the diverse and evolving needs of the multi-generational family.
Parkhouse achieves a zero net carbon classification by generating energy on-site, reducing electrical consumption, employing passive design strategies, reusing water, promoting carbon-free transportation, deploying environmentally friendly materials, encouraging composting, and promoting on-site food production. Paired with the neighborhood-oriented strategies at its core these sustainable building techniques provide a prototype for low rise housing that prioritizes the optimization of human health.
The Los Angeles zoning map concentrates commercial activity on to linear corridors that slice through the city’s low rise residential neighborhoods. These corridors are often studded with physical relics of the past -- adaptable structures once devoted to light industrial uses that sit vacant, unable to accommodate the code-minimum parking required to permit the more active uses of the contemporary city.
Parkhouse is situated on two back-to-back 50’x150’ residential parcels, located along an alley directly south of a post-industrial commercial corridor. It operates under the premise that a healthy urban neighborhood requires flexible housing options, climate-sensitive pedestrian infrastructure, and a variety of commercial venues within walking distance.
Parkhouse lifts its multifamily housing program above grade to provide for alley-accessed electric vehicle parking. These surplus stalls are made available for lease to small business owners, who can then activate the adjacent and otherwise dormant commercial corridor with a range of neighborhood-appropriate programming -- thus providing the increased parking that such programming would require.
Parkhouse nestles its street-level building volume between two well-shaded, well-lit, publicly accessible sidewalk gardens. Each garden re-imagines the city’s five-foot planting strip as part of a broader vegetated environment, and is supported by programmed interior space, at the west, by the building’s lobby, and at the east, by a community meeting hall. These generous gardens act as a threshold between the residential fabric and commercial corridor and provide community members a moment to pause within the shade, before continuing on their way.
Parkhouse locates its living quarters one story above grade, along the north edge of a shared, tenant-controlled terrace. Organized to accommodate a range of activities to suit the breadth of the Parkhouse residential community, the East and West ends of this terrace feature vegetation-concealed nooks that frame loosely programmed spaces for light fitness, children’s play, outdoor film viewing, and larger scale dining than any single unit can accommodate. These spaces support the terrace’s central garden program which focuses on communal food production.
The Parkhouse living quarters feature two-story, two-bathroom base units that include a double-height living space, open kitchen-dining area, office nook, and substantial private outdoor landing. Their generous volumetric composition allows occupants to share a living unit while maintaining separation when it is desired. Although these base units are ideal for a small family or roommate-style tenancy, they could also support a smaller occupancy with the desire for a more robust home office as well as a slightly larger family, assuming children share the second bedroom. This example of Parkhouse’s characteristic flexibility is only the beginning. In many Los Angeles neighborhoods, the family unit is larger than three or four, and the desire for generations to live together is ingrained in the very notion of urban life. For this kind of family, Parkhouse offers another level of flexible accommodation. When the demographics of a neighborhood deem it appropriate, the base unit array can be replaced by a hybrid configuration of two-, three-, and four-bedroom units. Within this configuration, larger units offer progressively larger living spaces and inhabitation possibilities to meet the diverse and evolving needs of the multi-generational family.
Parkhouse achieves a zero net carbon classification by generating energy on-site, reducing electrical consumption, employing passive design strategies, reusing water, promoting carbon-free transportation, deploying environmentally friendly materials, encouraging composting, and promoting on-site food production. Paired with the neighborhood-oriented strategies at its core these sustainable building techniques provide a prototype for low rise housing that prioritizes the optimization of human health.
The Los Angeles zoning map concentrates commercial activity on to linear corridors that slice through the city’s low rise residential neighborhoods. These corridors are often studded with physical relics of the past -- adaptable structures once devoted to light industrial uses that sit vacant, unable to accommodate the code-minimum parking required to permit the more active uses of the contemporary city.
Parkhouse is situated on two back-to-back 50’x150’ residential parcels, located along an alley directly south of a post-industrial commercial corridor. It operates under the premise that a healthy urban neighborhood requires flexible housing options, climate-sensitive pedestrian infrastructure, and a variety of commercial venues within walking distance.
Parkhouse lifts its multifamily housing program above grade to provide for alley-accessed electric vehicle parking. These surplus stalls are made available for lease to small business owners, who can then activate the adjacent and otherwise dormant commercial corridor with a range of neighborhood-appropriate programming -- thus providing the increased parking that such programming would require.
Parkhouse nestles its street-level building volume between two well-shaded, well-lit, publicly accessible sidewalk gardens. Each garden re-imagines the city’s five-foot planting strip as part of a broader vegetated environment, and is supported by programmed interior space, at the west, by the building’s lobby, and at the east, by a community meeting hall. These generous gardens act as a threshold between the residential fabric and commercial corridor and provide community members a moment to pause within the shade, before continuing on their way.
Parkhouse locates its living quarters one story above grade, along the north edge of a shared, tenant-controlled terrace. Organized to accommodate a range of activities to suit the breadth of the Parkhouse residential community, the East and West ends of this terrace feature vegetation-concealed nooks that frame loosely programmed spaces for light fitness, children’s play, outdoor film viewing, and larger scale dining than any single unit can accommodate. These spaces support the terrace’s central garden program which focuses on communal food production.
The Parkhouse living quarters feature two-story, two-bathroom base units that include a double-height living space, open kitchen-dining area, office nook, and substantial private outdoor landing. Their generous volumetric composition allows occupants to share a living unit while maintaining separation when it is desired. Although these base units are ideal for a small family or roommate-style tenancy, they could also support a smaller occupancy with the desire for a more robust home office as well as a slightly larger family, assuming children share the second bedroom. This example of Parkhouse’s characteristic flexibility is only the beginning. In many Los Angeles neighborhoods, the family unit is larger than three or four, and the desire for generations to live together is ingrained in the very notion of urban life. For this kind of family, Parkhouse offers another level of flexible accommodation. When the demographics of a neighborhood deem it appropriate, the base unit array can be replaced by a hybrid configuration of two-, three-, and four-bedroom units. Within this configuration, larger units offer progressively larger living spaces and inhabitation possibilities to meet the diverse and evolving needs of the multi-generational family.
Parkhouse achieves a zero net carbon classification by generating energy on-site, reducing electrical consumption, employing passive design strategies, reusing water, promoting carbon-free transportation, deploying environmentally friendly materials, encouraging composting, and promoting on-site food production. Paired with the neighborhood-oriented strategies at its core these sustainable building techniques provide a prototype for low rise housing that prioritizes the optimization of human health.
