As one of the densest neighborhoods in the country, Los Angeles? Koreatown is at the forefront of changing modes of contemporary urban living. LOHA?s design for Mariposa1038 plays with this burgeoning area?s density with a pure cube extruded to fit tight on its lot, and then formed to gesture back to the public street and surrounding context. To blur the distinction between the public and private sphere, LOHA pushed the cube inward on each of its sides, creating curves that grant relief from the sidewalk and return portions of the ground plane to the public realm.

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Architects: Lorcan O?Herlihy Architects

Location: Koreatown, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Principal Architect: Lorcan O?Herlihy

Design Team: Dana Lydon, Alex Anamos, Donnie Schmidt, Jessica Colangelo, Jennie Matusova
Area: 68000.0 ft2

Project Year: 2017

Photographs: Paul Vu, Minh Tran, Matthew Brush, Lauren Randolf, Jessica Zollman

Pd Architect: Nick Hopson

Landscape Architect: LINK Landscape

Structural Engineer: Amir Pirbadian, Inc.

Mep Engineer: Budlong & Associates

Civil Engineer: Harvey Goodman Civil Engineering

Geotechnical Engineer: Geocon West

Client: Mana Hale, LLC

Program: 32-Unit Multi-Family Housing

Awards: AIA Los Angeles, Design Award; The American Architecture Prize; AIA California Council, Design Award

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