Experience The Future With This All-Electric Mixed-Use Development
2024 Best of Year Winner for Affordable Housing
Replacing a corner-lot gas station in Santa Monica, California, the four-story, 42,000-square-foot mixed-use project Pacific Landing Affordable Housing was developed by a local nonprofit to provide 37 residences for people with disabilities and families in need. Crafted by Patrick Tighe Architecture, the structure’s mass is broken down into several smaller volumes separated by voids, each incorporating green space. All units are accessed via a central landscaped courtyard, which serves as a shared respite for residents as well as a play area for children. A café joins social-services offices and other amenities on the ground floor, while common spaces are distributed throughout the building, which is topped with a roof terrace offering distant mountain and ocean vistas. By utilizing both passive and active sustainable strategies, the all-electric development has earned LEED Platinum certification and achieves Net Zero energy performance—and not a gas pump in sight.
PROJECT TEAM: PATRICK TIGHE; KERVIN LAU.
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