Designed by Johnsen Schmaling Architects, Oak Park Housing is a compact urban infill development on a long-vacant lot in Sacramento?s Oak Park district, a demographically diverse neighborhood that, for decades, had suffered from economic stagnation and urban disinvestment. In recent years, young professionals, artists, and students have started to rediscover Oak Park as an affordable community close to downtown Sacramento, with new art galleries, independent coffee shops, and small businesses in tow filling abandoned storefronts throughout the area.
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Oak Park Housing is one of the neighborhood?s first new residential developments since the infamous 1969 Oak Park Riots, which left lasting scars on the city?s social and physical landscape; accordingly, the project is more than just a contemporary addition to the existing housing stock: it is a harbinger of urban revitalization, its architecture cheerfully embracing the creative and buoyant energy that has propelled the ongoing renaissance of this vibrant and culturally diverse community. Rendered Plan Isonometric
The project is a dense cluster of six small homes. Carefully proportioned to echo the massing and scale of the area?s existing building stock, the houses are simple, two-story volumes, their appearance crisp but deliberately playful in a nod to the progressive and creative spirit permeating Oak Park. Three of the six buildings are grouped along 2nd Avenue, where they repair the fragmented ...