Arch Tour Fest: 500 Broadway | 12:15PM

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Arch Tour Fest: 500 Broadway | 12:15PM

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Architecture Firm: KoningEizenberg Architecture

CES Learning Units: 1 LU

Tour Partner: COTE Committee

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Located 3 minutes from the Santa Monica Light Rail terminus, this LEED platinum mixed-use development offers high quality urban living on a 1.5 acre site at a density of 169 units/acre. Recently open in early 2022, it offers 248 market-rate apartments, a one acre rooftop park, and 34,000 sf of ground floor retail space.

500 Broadway offers high quality urban living and its budget supported experimentation which began with the approach to massing and open space. A string of public plazas shapes the retail storefront creating a linear “street park.” Its seating, shade, and bike parking encourage lingering along this major path between transit and neighborhood. Above, open-ended courtyards slice the program into four buildings which expands the sense of open space, while also optimizing daylight and movement of cooling breezes. The strategy also maintains views for the existing apartments located across the alley.

The courtyards are configured to create a sense of neighbourliness and social connection between home and street. Exterior bridges and garden perches at the edge of the second floor podium reinforce the connection as do balconies. The faceted building envelope also directs views to the street and allows more units to have expanded views. The smooth surfaces are limestone plaster and textured facade cement board. Attached sliding screens on south and street faces overlay texture and rhythm as they shade and add privacy.

Resident community space is provided on the roof and supplemented in the basement with a fitness center and spa. A rooftop these days is too valuable to waste and the one acre rooftop park offers residents an urban retreat with ocean views shaded by trees and photovoltaic canopies. The photovoltaic panels provide 120KW PV array of onsite energy production and will combine with passive shading, onsite water management and other strategies to achieve the LEED platinum certification and reduced carbon footprint.

Clients: Witkoff Group
Contractor/Consultants: Pankow Builders
Executive Architects: LARGE Architecture
Civil: PSOMAS
Landscape: Spurlock Landscape Architects
Structural: Nabih Youssef Associates
MEP: Buro Happold Consulting Engineers Inc.
IT/Security Systems: Vantage Technology Consulting Group
Lighting: Oculus Light Studio
Graphics: Newsom Design
Waterproofing: D7 Consulting
Pool: Aqua Design Internationals, Inc.
Vertical Transportation: Lerch Bates Inc.
Facade Access: Lerch Bates, Inc.

Tour Led By:

Nathan Bishop AIA, LEED AP – Principal, KoningEizenberg Architecture
Nathan Bishop, AIA, LEED AP, Principal combines rigorous design thinking and empathy to propel the kind of innovative thinking, critical conversation, and spirit of inquiry which is key to KoningEizenberg’s culture. Drawing on exceptional visualization and communication skills to quickly extract the unrecognized potential of complex urban contexts through strategy and form, Nathan expands the firm’s design capacity and integrates new technologies into the practice. He teaches and lectures in design, architectural history and theory, and cultural studies, and has served on the Board of Directors for the LA Forum for Art and Architecture. Nathan currently serves as a Director on the AIA Los Angeles Board.

Learning Objectives:
+ Participants will observe a case study outlining “sticky space” design principles that create resonant connections between home and neighborhood and in-between.
+ Participants will gain insight on the strategies used to achieve LEED Platinum Certification.
+ Participants will gain insight into the steel framing system used on the project instead of wood to cost effectively achieve facade modulation and variety of plan configuration.
+ Participants will understand how the development’s cross-grain massing challenged city planning guidelines.