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Skidrow Homeless Housing
PrizeWinner in Architectural Design / Social Housing
University/SchoolColumbia University
Lead ArchitectEdward Palka
ClientGSAPP, Columbia University, Advanced Studio 6, Professor Michael Bell w/ Nadine Maleh
Skidrow, a 0.4 sqmi area of Los Angeles, has roughly 5,000 homeless residing in it, driven by prohibitively high land prices. To address this situation, this project disassociates buildings from land and property, allowing projects to “squat” on otherwise valuable land. By rethinking fundamental architectural connections, a demountable architecture is imagined which shifts investment from buildings as bundles of commodities utilized to hold investment in land, to worthwhile and durable investments in their own right.