Client: Tighe Architecture
Completed in 2010, this 42-unit apartment building provides affordable housing for people with special needs. AHBE collaborated with Tighe Architects to create a healthy living environment using sustainable design approaches. A wraparound central courtyard was planted with bamboo to enhance the atrium quality of the space and to provide residents with shade and improved air quality. The landscape design included drought-tolerant plants, a drip irrigation system which uses captured rainwater, and concrete planters that filtered rainwater before it leaves the site.
Sierra Bonita is a pilot project for the City of West Hollywood's Green Building Ordinance and includes a solar electric panel system integrated into the facade and roof of the building. The project is the first all-affordable mixed-use project in the City's Eastside Redevelopment Area.
