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Communication from Public  Name: Damian PipkinsDate Submitted: 02/23/2020 07:54 AMCouncil File No: 19-0770 Comments for Public Posting:  This is my public comment for building ideas for the Leimert Park

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Housing Ideas

Mirador Housing – Madrid, Spain

Mirador Housing – Madrid, Spain

• Mirador housing in Madrid’s Sanchinarro quarter is more than just a block of flats.

• It’s closer to a vertical collection of mini neighborhoods.

• Dutch architectural firm MVRDV created slits between the blocks in the construction imagined as upright alleyways, and the large open space near the top has been dubbed the “sky plaza.”

Mirador Housing – Madrid, Spain

• This “semi-public” area provides residents with a communal meeting place and features a garden with stunning views of the nearby Guadarrama Mountains.

• The project won the Madrid municipality’s Best Design in Housing prize in 2005, even though it wasn’t completed until 2012.

• It contains 165 apartments.

Hatert Housing – Netherlands

Hatert Housing – Netherlands

• Tower Hatert in the Dutch city of Nijmegen is part of the local government’s plan to invigorate its housing.

• The rippling, sculpture-like 13-story building was designed by Rotterdam-based studio 24H Architecture.

• This development houses 72 apartments as well as a health care center on the ground floor.

Hatert Housing – Netherlands

• The timber used throughout the construction is FSC certified.

• And the non-aligned balconies – with the railings apparently inspired by leaf patterns – ensure that each unit gets enough natural light, while also offering residents uninterrupted views of their surroundings.

• This futuristic looking tower was finished in 2011.

Honeycomb Apartments – Izola, Slovenia

Honeycomb Apartments – Izola, Slovenia

• This bright, eclectic and unusual affordable housing development is situated in Izola in the southwestern part of Slovenia.

• The distinctive design ensured Ljubljana-based architects OFIS won a Slovenia Housing Fund award in a competition that involved designing inexpensive housing for young families.

• Dubbed the Honeycomb Apartments, the two blocks enjoy a view of Izola Bay on one flank and look out onto the neighboring hills on the other.

Honeycomb Apartments – Izola, Slovenia

• Shade and open-air access are important in this part of the world, so each unit has its own well-ventilated balcony area.

• Residents can also customize the interior of their apartments, while the colored fabric shades above the outdoor spaces provide privacy.

• Completed in 2006, the project contains 30 apartments in each block.

Simmons Hall, MIT, Cambridge, MA

Simmons Hall, MIT, Cambridge, MA

• The undergraduate residence is envisioned with the concept of "porosity."

• It is a vertical slice of city, 10 stories tall and 382' long, providing a 125 seat theater, a night café, and street level dining.

• The "sponge" concept transforms the building via a series of programmatic and bio-technical functions.

Simmons Hall, MIT, Cambridge, MA

• The building has five large openings corresponding to main entrances, view corridors, and outdoor activity terraces.

• Large, dynamic openings are the lungs, bringing natural light down and moving air up.

• Each of the dormitory's single rooms has nine operable windows.

• An 18" wall depth shades out the summer sun while allowing the low angled winter sun to help heat the building.

• At night, light from these windows is rhythmic and magical.

Simmons Hall, MIT, Cambridge, MA

Hope on Alvarado

Hope on Alvarado

• Hope on Alvarado creatively utilizes purpose-built steel modules into a modern and affordable transitional housing community for the Los Angeles homeless population.

• The five-story Hope on Alvarado offers studios and one-bedroom apartments on a 0.44-acre site at 166 Alvarado Street.

• The modular units are constructed offsite speeding up the construction process.

Hope on Alvarado

• Once the units arrive onsite it takes around a month for the units to be lifted into place providing for a completed community in just 14 months.

• The building is constructed around a central courtyard, providing privacy, safety and a deepened sense of community.

• Parking spaces are provided for social services staff while each resident has a bike- storage space.

Hope on Alvarado - Financing

• The Hope on Alvarado Apartments, located at 166 S. Alvarado Street in Los Angeles, requested

• Recommended for a reservation of $768,865 in annual federal tax credits to finance the new

• Construction of 83 units of housing serving tenants with rents affordable to households earning 50-60% of area median income (AMI).

• The project will be developed by LSA Capital, Inc. and will be located in CA Senate District 24 and CA Assembly District 51.

Hope on Alvarado - Financing

Hope on Alvarado - Financing

Hope on Alvarado - Financing

Hope on Alvarado - Financing

Affordable Housing Developers

Affordable Housing Funding Sources