The Whitsett West Tiny Home Village, designed by Lehrer Architects LA and the City of Los Angeles’ architects and engineers in the Bureau of Engineering, has recently opened to residents in North Hollywood, Los Angeles.

This project is the fourth such collaboration by Lehrer Architects and the City in the past seven months in this transitional housing format. This project takes a seemingly useless piece of land and creates a critical urban and social asset and an architectural jewel. Working in conjunction with multiple city agencies — led directly by the Bureau of Engineering and Ford Construction — Lehrer Architects LA has designed another vibrant, urban site using their signature architectural moves–creating the grace of place with the bold and strategic use of color and a carefully orchestrated composition of units to build a cohesive community. It again demonstrates the critical importance of design and delight in creating a place of dignity for residents, for the wider neighborhood, and perhaps most importantly, for the culture at large: destigmatizing housing the homeless by making these villages places of desire throughout the city.

▼6米宽的场地被转变为一个充满活力的社区 A 20ft-wide piece of land was turned into a vibrant community © Lehrer Architects