SILVER LAKE RESIDENTS

Small Lot Subdivision

Professor Barry Milofsky

Location:
Silver Lake, Los Angeles

Located on the corner of Violet and Santa Fe Ave in DTLA, the immediate context is home to various art studios, a depleted industrial core, and an arising houseless population; 12% of which are Veterans. With over 50% of the structures vacant, the 2040 code intends to redevelop the neighborhood through a drastic change in scale. The architecture intends to mediate this change in scale at both the macro and micro levels, in which the overall form and articulation of architectural elements create ties to the sites industrialized, technical past.

Mass timber design frame works at a macro scale, in which the structural skeleton represents the bones of what the 2040 zoning code’s maximum FAR intends to produce. At the micro level, the prefabricated CLT kit of parts allows for multiple dwelling units to form clusters, breaking down the skeleton to an orchestration of smaller forms that push and pull from a central communal void, creating an exterior fenestration that modulates the overall form; which is best interpreted from the street or periphery.