UCLA SW CAMPUS HOUSING

Westwood, Los Angeles, CA

GRADUATE STUDENT HOUSING MASTERPLAN

Client:

UCLA Capital Programs

Lot Area:

11.4 Acres – 497,000 sf

Units:

840 Apartments

Unit Sizes:

375 sf to 840 sf

Density:

74 du/ac – 1.25 FAR

Parking:

1,380 Cars

2009 Residential Architecture Awards Merit Award
Best Campus Housing

2007 Builder’s Choice Design & Planning Grand Award
Best Neighborhood Site Plan

2007 Gold Nugget Award of Merit
Best Neighborhood Site Plan

2007 Gold Nugget Award of Merit
Best In-Fill, Re-Development or Rehab. Site Plan

The new Southwest Campus of the University of California Los Angeles provides much needed housing for 1,380 graduate students. Courtyard housing and street-level, walk-up townhomes concealing partial subterranean parking garages take precedence from traditional southern California residential prototypes. An arched breezeway leads to the central courtyard of each building. The project’s Spanish Colonial style responds to the original design guidelines of historic Westwood Village. Classical styling and a quad with lawns and palm plaza mark the center of the project, contrasting with the vernacular style and informal landscape elsewhere. Wood and wrought-iron balconies, tile and plaster detailing add visual interest throughout.