Proposing ADU prototypes for cities in California.
Office of Office was engaged by our non-profit contractor partner RNLA (Restore Neighborhoods Los Angeles) to complete prototypes of ADUs for a Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) REGIONAL EARLY ACTION PLANNING (REAP) Subregional Partnership Program ADU Project in the cities of Pasadena, Santa Monica, and Laguna Beach.
We identified which architectural forms and designs were relevant to develop for each city.
This included research, gathered, and synthesized local architectural forms, styles, materials, and massing of backyard homes in each city which helped inform our design approach.
Our designs integrated factors of: law – how code shapes architecture; economic forces – how development shapes architecture; social dynamics – how do people inform space; and environment – what does context lend to form.
After we summarized and identified local typologies of ADUs, we proposed 5 new ADU prototypes for each city that responded to each’s context and character.
PROJECT PARTNERS:
RNLA, SCAG, REAP.