Lehrer Architects builds colourful village of micro homes for Los Angeles homeless
Alexandria Park Tiny Home Village is a development of 103 micro homes designed by Lehrer Architects to provide homeless housing in Los Angeles.
Located on a narrow plot in a park in North Hollywood, the brightly coloured complex can house up to 200 people at a time in its gabled shelters.
Alexandria Park Tiny Home Village is in North Hollywood
The eight-foot-wide (2.4 metres) square-shaped cabins, which can accommodate one or two people, are made by Pallet, a manufacturer of homeless shelters based in Washington State.
Alexandria Park Tiny Home Village is named after the park it sits in, near the 170 Freeway. The project is a collaboration between local practice Lehrer Architects and architects and engineers from the Los Angeles City Bureau of Engineering. The complex can house up to 200 people in 103 shelters
"LA is surely among the most vibrant laboratories in the world today to be designing and building projects in ? big, small permanent, transitional ? to remediate and eliminate homelessness," said studio founder Michael B. Lehrer.
Homelessness is a serious issue in Los Angeles, with high rents and a lack of affordable housing exacerbating the situation. The last annual homeless count for the city, made in June 2020, recorded 66,433 people living on the streets, in shelters or in vehicles.
Lehrer Architects built the cabins around existing trees
"From design to policy to sweating bureaucratic and regulatory conflicts and challenges, this is an auspicious ...
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