Tracey A. Stone is on my list of top 10 favorite architects not does she produce beautiful modern design, but she does it GREEN. The architect's live/work space is located in the Frogtown area of Los Angeles, and lies within a strip of industrially zoned land bounded by the Los Angeles River and a dense residential neighborhood. This zone, created after the disastrous Los Angeles River flood of 1938, is unusual in its proximity to the residences, and has in recent years taken on a new identity as an informal art district, with many architects, fabricators and designers renovating and transforming spaces.
The project is an adaptive re-use of an industrial textile manufacturing facility as a residence and architect's office. The entire existing structure was retains (including the steel frame of an illegal metal building inserted between the two concrete block warehouses,) and a new "box" was added to the interior containing a bathroom, closet and storage with a storage/guest area above.
Inside, the former warehouse was gutted, and a new box housing closets, storage and a bathroom was embedded into the middle of the space, creating rooms without walls. Two new glass facades add light and ventilation, and allow the space, to spill out into the coutyard. A skylight punctures through the roof and will eventually create access to a rooftop garden.
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