Gramercy Senior Housing
Gramercy Senior Housing
Gramercy Senior Housing
Gramercy Senior Housing
Gramercy Senior Housing
Gramercy Senior Housing
Gramercy Senior Housing
Gramercy Senior Housing
Gramercy Senior Housing
Gramercy Senior Housing

Gramercy Senior Housing

News
↗ Houston Endowment Headquarters and Gramercy Senior Housing Named 2020 AIALA NEXT LA Award Winners
↗ Urbanize LA: Senior Affordable Housing Rises in Harvard Heights
↗ kdA’s Gramercy Housing Gets Approved
Process
  • ↗ Gramercy Construction
Related Projects
  • ↗ UCSB San Joaquin Village Housing
  • ↗ Tahiti Housing
  • ↗ Mammoth Lakes Affordable Housing
  • ↗ Little Berkeley
  • ↗ Broadway Affordable Housing
  • Location Los Angeles, CA
  • Type Residential
  • Area 70,000SF
  • Completion 2021
Recognition
  • 2020 AIA/LA Next LA Award

Gramercy Senior Housing is an affordable housing complex currently under construction on a block-length lot formerly owned by the City of LA and used as a towing yard.   One of the first developments to utilize city-sponsored Supportive Housing (Prop HHH) funds, this project will provide much-needed housing options to low-income and homeless seniors in one of America’s most expensive housing markets.

The site, long marked for redevelopment, has for decades sat untouched, presenting an unsightly blank-fenced façade to the neighborhood. After numerous false starts, in 2016 a competition process was held to determine the site’s future, and affordable housing developer Hollywood Community Housing Corporation (HCHC) was selected to lead the new building plans.

The 70,000SF mixed-use, high-density project includes 64 new apartments for senior (55+) residents making less than 50% of the area’s median income levels (with half designated for those who were formerly homeless), a commercial café, community spaces, and public plaza on the entry level.

Extensive public outreach informed kdA’s development process. The project is designed as six discrete buildings, reflecting the scale of the surrounding single-family residences.  Constructed in a narrow lot bordered by busy Washington Boulevard on the west and craftsman homes to the east, the complex will appear as a linear array of six separate structures connected by an exterior walkway system finished with an organic, loose trellis intentionally contrasted with the lace-like metal screen protecting windows from southern exposure.

The massing of the buildings along Washington Boulevard are designed to be taller in order to shield those on the other side, providing additional privacy to residents and maximizing available light to surrounding parcels. Optimized for modular construction, the highly efficient floor plans in each structure allow for natural light and ventilation from both ends, while courtyard spaces outside of the apartments serve as shared living rooms for residents to gather. A rooftop edible garden offers additional shared community space.

Recognition
  • 2020 AIA/LA Next LA Award
  • Public
  • Residential
  • Environments
  • All
  • Projects
  • Practice
  • News
  • About
  • Contact

kdAkevin daly Architects

3617 Exposition Blvd
LA CA 90016
1 310 656 3180
info@kevindalyarchitects.com

  • Careers
  • Copyright and privacy policy
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • Facebook

Newsletter


Website
Design by IN-FO.CO
Development by Camp Quiet