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Kingsley Apartments

This project delivers a 68-unit apartment building designed using the City of Los Angeles TOC Ordinance which allows for additional density, height, and the provision of 6 Very Low Income (VLI) units in the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles - the most densly inhabited part of the city. The building needed to straddle a very large storm drain passing obliquely through the site; and it effectively 'bridges' over it on three contiguous lots. To reduce the perception of scale, we broke the massing down along the street. The facade zigs and zags back and forth at the module of a unit helping to impart scale to the overall mass. At the southwest corner of the roof, we made space for a large, shared communal deck. And most noticeable, a large 'hole' was placed in the facade to help the courtyard open out to the street and take in views west toward the ocean. 

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