Renewal-Zone：LEED金级的住宅新解｜当设计履践社会贡献：玫瑰公寓
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位于洛杉矶和劳德代尔堡的Brooks + Scarpa设计公司完成了玫瑰公寓。这个获得LEED（美国绿色建筑评估体系）金级认证的四层混合功能建筑,是一座100%经适型公寓，35个居住单位，供处于过渡年龄期的青年提供居住空间。当青少年福利设施的孩子年满18周岁，被迫离开时，常因无处可去其中的大多数最终会流落街头。玫瑰公寓为这些原本会露宿街头的年轻人提供了家园。这座建筑选址于无需私家车也能便捷出行的地方。
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新建筑位于全食超市、7-11超市、自助洗衣店、林肯五金商店和其他一系列便利设施的正对面，距离海滩仅七个街区，毗邻威尼斯独具一格的玫瑰大道上的潮流商店和餐厅。受附近由欧文·吉尔于1919年建造的Horatio Court的启发，该建筑围绕地面层商业空间上方的架高庭院设计。庭院式公寓在洛杉矶已经存在了一百多年，促进了以行人为导向的社区关系，作为无序扩张的替代方案，在项目中心创造了可使用的空间，而不是建筑体量之外未使用的剩余空间。
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洛杉矶管理委员会主任肯·伯恩斯坦（Ken Bernstein）表示，许多20世纪50年代之前建造，尤其是位于好莱坞和西好莱坞区域的庭院公寓，都是对本土建筑的探索，“他说，这也是为了营造邻里关系。与其他多住户住房相比，庭院式公寓更能提供归属感。“对于居住在庭院周围的人来说，这个空间提供了一种安全感和隐私性；庭院是一个介于住宅和街道之间的准公共空间。
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庭院只是成功设计的一个方面。玫瑰公寓建立在南加州的住宅类型的基础上，区别于早期的传统建筑，更具特质——创造了更高的安全性、隐私性和开放性，同时连接到建筑墙外更大的社区。通过在这个市场价位项目中包含经济适用房，开发商可以利用加利福尼亚州议会法案AB763来增加高度和密度，将项目密度从地区平均的12.30/DU/A提升到每英亩超过110个单位。这种急需的经济适用房为居住在城镇富裕地区的贫困和弱势群体提供了住房。对地区发展非常重要的工人因低收入而无力负担生活费用的情况在当地非常严峻，该项目也有助于缓解洛杉矶经适房的供应短缺。
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同以前的许多传统庭院结构一样，玫瑰公寓的主要外立面材料是常用的水泥抹灰。然而，对于经济适用房项目通常会遇到的问题，玫瑰公寓采用了扇形墙壁，赋予深度、质感以及纹理的变化。
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这些墙表面应用了闪光颗粒，使外墙在人们经过时闪闪发光。阳光和明亮的采光条件会使外墙在短短几秒钟内变为柔和的银色。这种快速变化，会根据一天中的不同时段使折射并投下光影。
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BROOKS + SCARPA Releases Images of Recently Completed Rose Apartments for Formerly Homeless Teenage Youths Transitioning into Adulthood.
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Los Angeles and Fort Lauderdale based design firm Brooks + Scarpa has completed Rose Apartments. This new LEED Gold four-story 35-unit Rose mixed-use 100% affordable apartment structure for transitional aged youths. When kids "term out" as they say when they turn 18 years old and are forced to leave a youth facility, most wind up living on the street because there is no place for them to go. Rose Apartments provides a home to this young adult who would otherwise be living on the street. The building is located where no car is needed.
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The new building is situated directly across the street from Whole Foods, 7 Eleven, a laundromat, Lincoln Hardware and a host of other amenities and is just seven blocks from the beach, adjacent to the toney shops and restaurants on the eclectic Rose Avenue in Venice. Taking cues from the nearby Horatio Court, built in 1919 by Irving Gill, the building is designed around an elevated courtyard above ground level commercial space. The courtyard typology has existed in Los Angeles for more than a hundred years. It promotes pedestrian-oriented neighborhoods as an alternative to sprawl, creating usable space in the center of the project, instead of unused, leftover space outside of the building volume.
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According to Ken Bernstein, director of preservation for the Los Angeles Conservancy, a lot of the courtyard apartments build prior to the 1950s, especially in Hollywood and West Hollywood, "were part of a search for indigenous architecture," he says, as much as an attempt to create neighborliness. More than any other multi-dwelling housing, courtyard apartments, "make you feel like you belong to a place." For people living around the courtyard, the space provides a sense of safety and privacy; the courtyard is a quasi-public space that mediates between the home and the street.
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The courtyard is only one aspect of a successful design. Rose Apartments builds on this southern California housing typology, but unlike those earlier traditional buildings, it is more idiosyncratic - creating increased security, privacy and openness, while connecting to the greater community outside the building walls. By including affordable housing for transitional aged youths, it allowed the non-developer to take advantage of California State Assembly Bill AB763 for increased height and density, increasing the project density from an area average of 12.30/DU/A to more than 110 units/acre. This much needed affordable housing provides poor and disadvantaged populations housing in an affluent area of town where low-wage workers are critical but unable to afford to live. It also contributes to much needed affordable housing stock in short supply in Los Angeles.
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Like many of the traditional courtyard structures before, the main exterior material at Rose Apartments is commonly used exterior cement plaster. However, at Rose walls are scalloped to give depth, relief and texture, an issue that affordable housing projects typically suffer.
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These walls also include surface applied sparkle grain that makes the facades shimmer as people pass by. Sunlight and bright lighting conditions make the façade go soft and silver in just a few seconds. It's a quick-moving phenomenon that bends light and casts shadows depending on the time of day.
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THE ROSE APARTMENTS
Project Details
Project's Formal Name: The Rose Apartments
Location of Project: 720 Rose Ave, Venice, CA 90291
Client/Owner: Venice Community Housing Corporation
Total Square Footage: 20,900 SF
Lot Size: 13,150 (0.31 acres) 35 units = 113 units/acre
Total Cost: $12,400,000
Completed: 2021
Architects: Brooks + Scarpa
Project Team: Brooks + Scarpa
Lawrence Scarpa, FAIA, Lead Designers
Angela Brooks, FAIA, Principal-in-Charge, Flavia Christi, George Faber, AIA, David Garcia, Carlos Garcia, AIA-Project Architect, Tod Funkhauser, Jeffrey Huber, FAIA, Dionicio Ichillumpa, Iliya Muzychuk, Micaela Danko, Eric Mosher, Eleftheria Stavridi, Fui Srivkorn, Yimin Wu, Juan Villareal
Project Design Team
Landscape: Brooks + Scarpa with Tina Chee
Engineering: Labib Funk – Structural and Civil Engineering
Breen Engineering – Electrical, Mechanical and Plumbing
Homage Design (Shellie Collier) – LEED Consultant
Southern California Geotechnical – Geotechnical Engineering
Wayfinding: Brooks + Scarpa
Contractor: Walton Construction
Photography: Jeff Durkin and Brooks + Scarpa (as noted)
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