Los Angeles Affordable Apartments
This is an urban collective housing typology derived from Korean traditional villages and adapted to a site in downtown L.A. as a case study for rehabilitation for low income Angelenos. Porous Housing is a compact mass when assembled. By disassembling its basic components, the units have an openness between them which helps overcome the closure typical of modern multiunit housing. Eventually there will be a means for social communication as this dwelling forms a culture of its own. The communal space is the medium between the private boundary and the public periphery.
Los Angeles Affordable Apartments
For this research project regarding a multi-unit residential complex, I proposed unit prototypes for the low-income which provokes pedestrian activity in downtown L.A. As a mobile city, I believe this could be new typology towards which a city like Los Angeles should especially push for.