Use drives organization
Residential, commercial, service, parking, and shared functions need clear relationships.
Mixed-Use Design Study
Melrose Mixed-Use
Los Angeles
Project perspective
An urban design study exploring how residential and commercial uses, massing, frontage, and identity can meet on a Los Angeles site.
The design story
Melrose Mixed-Use demonstrates the value of architectural thinking before a project is fully defined. The study connects uses, building form, street presence, and site opportunity in a way that gives a development team something concrete to evaluate.
It also shows why mixed-use work benefits from experience in both housing and commercial environments. The building must support different users and operating patterns without losing a coherent identity.
What this project shows
Lessons carried into the next commission.
The ground floor communicates
Entry, visibility, frontage, and pedestrian scale establish how a mixed-use project meets the city.
Study before commitment
Early scenarios make tradeoffs visible while the team still has meaningful choices.
