spatial offset
The world at 32.47°
This project is a place of respite and rehabilitation for individuals and groups looking for a retreat from the larger scale and commotion of the city of Los Angeles. The site is located in West Hollywood, Los Angeles where dingbats dominate the urban landscape. The project acts as a neighborhood within a neighborhood, allowing for more intimate community exchange and experiences. Within this intimate neighborhood, there are varying size capsules, blocks, and lodgings, which can accommodate individual living needs as well as larger congregations. Individuals are invited to stay for various lengths of time, allowing for flexible retreat, unbound by the sense of permanence or typical housing commitments. Occupants can retreat to physical activity spaces, sensory deprivation rooms, communal soaking baths, and meditative spaces located throughout the site. By introducing grid-rotation, grid-shift, and grid-offset, we create varying conditions of proportion and perception in section, plan, and time scales. These operations produce conditions such as volumetric intersections, clashes, misalignments, formal ambiguity, and blurring of the interior and exterior boundaries. These ideas extend into the architecture; the logic of operations apply to detail connections, spatial offsets, and facade slippage. The structural details of the project incorporate offsets, rotation and misalignments to create custom connections that express the offset and rotated spaces that house programs of respite, relaxation, and rehabilitation. In areas of the project that house practical services such as laundry, sleeping, living, and eating areas, structural details and spatial organisations revert back to the 12’ - 6” grid that divides the site.
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