Category: Live
Honorable Mention
The 2802 Pico Housing project brings affordable housing to a mixed commercial and residential zone near the Santa Monica College campus, just 2.5 miles from the beach. In the face of zoning constraints and neighborhood concerns, the locally based architects designed a 42,263-square-foot cluster of dwellings, retail, and community space surrounding a courtyard that benefits from westerly ocean breezes in a manner that showed “a will to transform a sometimes very tough and heartless typology,” juror Sheila Kennedy said. Interlocking bridges cross the central open area to provide access to 33 residential units along single-loaded corridors that relate to the area’s pedestrian scale, despite the fact that “this project was about a different kind of urban fabric, and community life,” juror Cathy Lang Ho said.
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Project Credits
Project 2802 Pico Housing, Santa Monica, Calif.
Client Community Corp. of Santa Monica
Architect Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners, Santa Monica, Calif.—James Mary O’Connor, AIA (principal-in-charge); Pooja Bhagat, AIA (project manager); Kaoru Orime (color and materials); Mark Grand (models); Colins Lozada (photography); Martin Saavedra, Jason Pytko, Toru Narita, Alberto Reano (team)
Landscape Pamela Burton & Co. Landscape Architecture
Structural Engineer C. W. Howe Partners
M/E/P and Lighting Engineer Davidovich & Associates
Civil Engineer VCA Engineers
Geotechnical Engineer Grover Hollingsworth and Associates
Planning Planning and Community Development, City of Santa Monica
General Contractor Morley Construction Co., Benchmark Contractors
Project Manager J.S. Egan Design
Acoustics Schaffer Acoustics
Waterproofing Independent Roofing Consultants
Photography John Edward Linden Photography
Size 42,263 gross square feet, 28,000 square feet (parking)
Cost $12.5 million
