
Tents crowd the sidewalk of Skid Row in Los Angeles in July of 2018.
In March we posted a story about the possibilities of ‘returning’ to wood construction for social housing, as it was now being treated seriously as an alternative to more conventional concrete/and or steel high rise construction.
We’re not talking conventional stud wall timber construction, but beams of cross laminated timber (CLT).1
And low and behold, what has appeared before our eyes is a vision of a very similar kind of project — supportive housing — slated for completion on skid row in Los Angeles, a street famous these days for its quasi-permanent homeless encampments.
Read more in The Architect’s Newspaper: Michael Maltzan Architecture Designs Affordable Mass Timber Housing Tower For Skid Row