The Chandler Boulevard Bridge Home Village, was designed by Lehrer Architects and the Bureau of Engineering for the City of Los Angeles. This innovative community project offers an aggressive, appropriately experimental and timely template for improving Los Angeles’ homelessness crisis by transforming a forgotten, oddly shaped infill lot into a 39 one-or-two-person/unit facility for unhoused Angelenos using prefabricated “pallet shelters”.

Uplift residents and to respectfully complete and enhance the neighborhood serving to inspire pride for these projects in a local community.

Lehrer Architects was tasked by the Bureau of Engineering to take their design blueprint and create a humane and welcoming environment for the home’s residents. In projects like these design matters, both to uplift residents and to respectfully complete and enhance the neighborhood serving to inspire pride for these projects in a local community. Working in conjunction with multiple city agencies led directly by the Bureau of Engineering, Department of Public Works, and Ford Construction, Lehrer Architects LA designed a plan of spatial character, colorful details, and logistical efficiency to create a model community space with a level of design sensibility and beauty not often seen in these types of projects.

11478 Chandler Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, 91601 (map it)

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This site was selected by the City of Los Angeles.

39 one-or-two-person/unit

75 beds

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Lehrer Architects LA

The Chandler Boulevard Bridge Home was constructed on an awkwardly shaped, leftover infill site that could have been easily looked over if it weren’t for hawkeyed City officials looking to find land to create bridge homes. This particular solution, using pallet shelters instead of large trailers, opens up a flurry of sites across the city previously deemed unviable for development as their size allows for them to be configured into a variety of different shapes. These 8×8’ Pallet Homes are swift to assemble, provide private, autonomous conditioned space for the people who live in them, and, like pixels fitting an odd shape, they add real value to a heretofore underused property. Chandler Boulevard Bridge Home Village, represents a lightning-quick, highly collaborative, inventive, efficient, and beautiful solution to the LA homelessness crisis. Lehrer Architects believes that creating a home for someone – for anyone and everyone – is about providing human dignity, safety, love, and respect, and Chandler is a model of how to enhance a community by caring for its most vulnerable residents with dignity through design.

February 2021

Pallet Shelter, https://www.palletshelter.com/our-products

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City of Los Angeles, Bureau of Engineering

Client: City of Los Angeles Bureau of Engineering
Delivery: Design-Build
General Contractor: Ford E.C. Inc.
Civil Engineer: Barbara L. Hall, PE. Inc.
MEP Engineering: Alfa Tech

Hope of the Valley, https://www.hopeofthevalley.org/

Onsite, meals, showers, case management, housing navigation, mental health, job training and placement provided.

*Hope of the Valley has an operational contract with LAHSA (Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority) for the majority of the expenses incurred as the operator.