The Rose Apartments
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这座新的 LEED 金级四层 35 单元的玫瑰混合用途 100% 可负担公寓建筑，专为过渡年龄的年轻人而建。当孩子们“到期”——即年满 18 岁，被迫离开青少年设施时，大多数人最终会流落街头，因为没有地方可去。玫瑰公寓为这些年轻人提供了一个家，否则他们可能会无家可归。该建筑位于一个无需汽车的地方，正对面是 Whole Foods、7 Eleven、自助洗衣店、林肯五金店以及其他众多便利设施，距离海滩仅七个街区，毗邻威尼斯的玫瑰大道上时尚的商店和餐厅。
建筑设计灵感来源于 1919 年由欧文·吉尔建造的霍拉提奥法院，围绕着高于地面商业空间的中央庭院而设计。庭院类型在洛杉矶已经存在了超过一百年。它促进了以步行为导向的社区，作为对城市扩张的替代方案，在项目中心创造可用空间，而不是建筑体外的未使用剩余空间。根据洛杉矶保护协会的保护主任肯·伯恩斯坦的说法，许多1950年代之前建造的庭院公寓，尤其是在好莱坞和西好莱坞，都是对本土建筑的探索，“这不仅是为了创造邻里关系。”与其他多户住宅相比，庭院公寓“让你感到自己属于一个地方。”对于生活在庭院周围的人来说，这个空间提供了一种安全感和隐私感；庭院是一个准公共空间，调和了家庭与街道之间的关系。
玫瑰公寓提供庇护和舒适，摒弃了典型的防御性公寓建筑，选择了一个雕刻出来的高架中央庭院，成为社区的灯塔，通过弱化私人空间来庆祝社交空间。战略性布置的窗户、目的明确的外部通道以及环绕外缘的单元，使 35 个低收入公寓朝向社交空间，这些空间在空间上是分开的，但在视觉上彼此相连，并与下面的街道相连。
庭院只是成功设计的一个方面。玫瑰公寓在南加州住房类型的基础上进行构建，但与早期的传统建筑不同，它更加独特——在增加安全性、隐私和开放性的同时，与建筑墙外的更大社区相连接。通过为过渡年龄的年轻人提供可负担住房，使非开发商能够利用加利福尼亚州议会法案 AB763，增加建筑高度和密度，将项目密度从区域平均的 12.30 个单元/英亩提高到超过 110 个单元/英亩。这种急需的可负担住房为在富裕地区的贫困和弱势群体提供了住房，而低收入工人至关重要但无法负担生活费用。它还为洛杉矶急需的可负担住房库存做出了贡献。
与许多传统庭院结构一样，玫瑰公寓的主要外部材料是常用的外部水泥抹灰。然而，在玫瑰公寓，墙面呈波浪状，以增加深度、浮雕和质感，这是可负担住房项目通常面临的问题。这些墙面还包括表面涂层的闪光颗粒，使外立面在行人经过时闪闪发光。阳光和明亮的照明条件使外立面在几秒钟内变得柔和和银色。这是一种快速变化的现象，随着一天中时间的不同，弯曲光线并投射阴影。
This new LEED Gold four-story 35-unit Rose mixed-use 100% affordable apartment structure for transitional aged youths. When kids “term out” as they say when they turn 18 years old and are forced to leave a youth facility, most wind up living on the street because there is no place for them to go. Rose Apartments provides a home to this young adult who would otherwise be living on the street. The building is located where no car is needed. It is situated directly across the street from Whole Foods, 7 Eleven, a laundromat, Lincoln Hardware and a host of other amenities and is just seven blocks from the beach, adjacent to the toney shops and restaurants on the eclectic Rose Avenue in Venice. Taking cues from the nearby Horatio Court, built in 1919 by Irving Gill, the building is designed around an elevated courtyard above ground level commercial space. The courtyard typology has existed in Los Angeles for more than a hundred years. It promotes pedestrian-oriented neighborhoods as an alternative to sprawl, creating usable space in the center of the project, instead of unused, leftover space outside of the building volume. According to Ken Bernstein, director of preservation for the Los Angeles Conservancy, a lot of the courtyard apartments build prior to the 1950s, especially in Hollywood and West Hollywood, were part of a search for indigenous architecture,” he says, as much as an attempt to create neighborliness. More than any other multi-dwelling housing, courtyard apartments, “make you feel like you belong to a place.” For people living around the courtyard, the space provides a sense of safety and privacy; the courtyard is a quasi-public space that mediates between the home and the street.
Offering shelter and comfort, Rose Apartments eschews the typical neighborhood defensive apartment buildings with solid walls and fences in favor of a carved-out and raised central court, a beacon in the neighborhood that celebrates social space by de-emphasizing private space. Strategically placed windows, purposeful exterior circulation and units that wrap the outer-most edges, orient the 35 low-income apartments to social spaces that are spatially apart, yet visually connected to each other and the street below.
The courtyard is only one aspect of a successful design. Rose Apartments builds on this southern California housing typology, but unlike those earlier traditional buildings, it is more idiosyncratic - creating increased security, privacy and openness, while connecting to the greater community outside the building walls. By including affordable housing for transitional aged youths, it allowed the non-developer to take advantage of California State Assembly Bill AB763 for increased height and density, increasing the project density from an area average of 12.30/DU/A to more than 110 units/acre. This much needed affordable housing provides poor and disadvantaged populations housing in an affluent area of town where low-wage workers are critical but unable to afford to live. It also contributes to much needed affordable housing stock in short supply in Los Angeles.
Like many of the traditional courtyard structures before, the main exterior material at Rose Apartments is commonly used exterior cement plaster. However, at Rose walls are scalloped to give depth, relief and texture, an issue that affordable housing projects typically suffer. These walls also include surface applied sparkle grain that makes the facades shimmer as people pass by. Sunlight and bright lighting conditions make the façade go soft and silver in just a few seconds. It’s a quick-moving phenomenon that bends light and casts shadows depending on the time of day.