Los Angeles Builds Colorful Tiny Home Village So All Can Have A Place To Live
Image via Lehrer Architects for the City of Los Angeles
Some people are stuck at home; others don’t have one. The City of Los Angeles hopes to improve living conditions for the homeless by opening a vibrant little village of 40 tiny homes, an admirable solution for one of its most glaring problems.
The colorful Chandler Boulevard Bridge Home Village, located in North Hollywood, was designed and constructed by Lehrer Architects and Los Angeles’ Bureau of Engineering under the direction of the Hope of the Valley Rescue Mission. According to a report by House Beautiful, it took only 13 weeks to build the village before its opening on February 2.
Each prefab home can accommodate just one or two people, but the upside of the compact size is that 40 of the houses can be efficiently fitted into the once-abandoned infill lot. The units were supplied by Washington-based Pallet Shelter, which specializes in building portable and durable personal shelters.
The area is designed to look delightful, with a bright color scheme of red, yellow, blue, white, and orange, not just for the sake of grouping and for creating village vibes, but to also brighten the moods of residents. “In projects like these, design matters to uplift residents and to respectfully complete and enhance the neighborhood,” noted Lehrer Architects.
The firm explained, “Chandler Boulevard Bridge Home Village represents a lightning-quick, highly collaborative, inventive, efficient, and beautiful solution to the LA homelessness crisis,” shared the firm. “Lehrer Architects believes that creating a home for someone – for anyone and everyone – is about providing human dignity, safety, love, and respect, and Chandler is a model of how to enhance a community by caring for its most vulnerable residents with dignity through design.”
House Beautiful reported last month that the shelters had been fully occupied.
The Hope of the Valley Rescue Mission has also set its sights on LA’s Alexandria Park, where it will complete building a tiny housing area of 103 units and 200 beds in April.
Image via Lehrer Architects for the City of Los Angeles
Image via Lehrer Architects for the City of Los Angeles
Image via Lehrer Architects for the City of Los Angeles
Image via Lehrer Architects for the City of Los Angeles
Image via Lehrer Architects for the City of Los Angeles
Image via Lehrer Architects for the City of Los Angeles
[via Boing Boing and House Beautiful, images via Lehrer Architects for the City of Los Angeles]
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