- Year
- 2022
- Type
- Residential
- Status
- Concept
- Firm
- Utile, Inc.
In response to the Low-Rise: Housing Ideas for Los Angeles competition organized by the Los Angeles Mayor’s Office and Christopher Hawthorne, the Chief Design Officer for the City of Los Angeles, with support from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the James Irvine Foundation, and Citi, Homegrown Court proposes a rethinking of the traditional 50’x100’ single family Los Angeles parcel to accommodate 4-6 units and meet the needs of today’s rapidly changing Los Angeles. Homegrown Court updates the vernacular Bungalow Court typology through the paradigm shift of radical flexibility, creating adaptable units that expand and contract according to residents’ needs, and productive outdoor spaces whose public-private gradient ebbs and flows as desired. The Homegrown Court thereby balances the prototypical and customizable, enabling its implementation throughout the region, while centering and celebrating Los Angeles’s diverse cultures and communities and creating 21st-century solutions for the city and region’s changing dynamics.