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Interim Housing

LOCATION
Los Angeles, CA

PROJECT TYPE
Interim Housing with Psychiatric Recuperative Care Services
CLIENT
County of Los Angeles, Department of Health Services/Housing for Health

PROJECT SIZE
8,000 SQ FT

40 Recuperative Care Beds

Inclusive of exam rooms, consult offices, administrative offices, medical laboratory, client foyer, and staff respite areas.

PROJECT STATUS
Completed in 2022

PROJECT OVERVIEW

A specialized interim housing site with medical monitoring, counseling and case management services for medically vulnerable women whose experience of trauma make it difficult to live in a typical shelter. An adaptive reuse build, the facility includes semi-private sleep areas, indoor + outdoor landscaped community spaces, administrative, healthcare and clinical service areas, warming kitchen and sunny dining room.

PERCH ROLE

FEASIBILITY +
ASSESSMENT
  • Listen and learn from stakeholders
  • Create needs assessment for intended use and goals for project interiors
  • Define program requirements and end user priorities 
  • Draft Projected schedules and milestone timelines
  • Align and optimize funding resources
TEAM
CONSOLIDATION
  • Develop the project team and empower existing team
  • Identify and vet consultants
  • Guide stakeholder engagement with service provider for best project outcomes
  • Support funder, service provider and property owner conversations 
  • Calibrate expectations for project with local officials and across agencies
  • Elevate pro-bono partners and material donations
Design +
Visioning
for Program
  • Align desired outcomes with built environment
  • Space and functional programming for human centered design
  • Complete interior design, furnishings, finish specification 
  • Provide Technical assistance for pre-development, design development, bidding, construction phases
  • Collaborate with architect, MEP, CASp, ADA, and environmental experts
Project
Management
  • Manage contracts
  • Inform project changes, value engineering and risk mitigation
  • Navigate cooperative engagement between primary stakeholders
  • Oversee Budget and pretend we’re spending our own money

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