Isla Intersections Supportive Housing and Paseo / Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects - Image 1 of 12© Eric Staudenmaier

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https://www.archdaily.com/1036146/isla-intersections-supportive-housing-and-paseo-lorcan-oherlihy-architects
Isla Intersections Supportive Housing and Paseo / Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects - Image 2 of 12© Eric Staudenmaier

Text description provided by the architects. In 2018, the City of Los Angeles made available some of its more than 1,700 city-owned parcels to affordable housing developers. Many of these sites are difficult, lying along heavy-traffic corridors or next to freeways. In other instances, the sites are composite parcels that have been left untouched for decades. In LOHA’s second collaboration with non-profit developer Holos Communities, this 35,000-square-foot, 54-unit housing project and adjacent paseo repurpose a 19,814-square-foot triangular site, uniting a traffic island and a former railroad right-of-way. Situated near one of the world’s busiest freeway interchanges—the meeting of the 110 and 105 freeways—the design makes a challenging location more livable.

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